From 979b8d4a077ea2a5e16f0fa6e60e332864819d3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jyelon <jyelon@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 15:20:33 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fix the debugger not being able to show TCHAR *

---
 EnginePatches/EnginePatch | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 build-everything.py       |  7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+)

diff --git a/EnginePatches/EnginePatch b/EnginePatches/EnginePatch
index 04625e97..8666ec81 100644
--- a/EnginePatches/EnginePatch
+++ b/EnginePatches/EnginePatch
@@ -1,3 +1,28 @@
+diff --git a/Engine/Extras/LLDBDataFormatters/UEDataFormatters_2ByteChars.py b/Engine/Extras/LLDBDataFormatters/UEDataFormatters_2ByteChars.py
+index f56f5ea9cac4..ff1c4030b38f 100644
+--- a/Engine/Extras/LLDBDataFormatters/UEDataFormatters_2ByteChars.py
++++ b/Engine/Extras/LLDBDataFormatters/UEDataFormatters_2ByteChars.py
+@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ def UETCharSummaryProvider(valobj,dict):
+         if DataVal == 0:
+             Val = 'NULL'
+         else:
+-            Expr = '(char16_t*)(%s)' % Data
++            Expr = '(char16_t*)(%s)' % DataVal
+             ValRef = valobj.CreateValueFromExpression('string', Expr)
+             Val = ValRef.GetSummary()
+     elif Type.IsReferenceType():
+@@ -47,6 +47,11 @@ def UETCharSummaryProvider(valobj,dict):
+             Expr = '(char16_t*)(%s)' % valobj.GetAddress()
+             ValRef = valobj.CreateValueFromExpression('string', Expr)
+             Val = ValRef.GetSummary()
++    else:
++        DataVal = valobj.GetValueAsUnsigned(0)
++        Expr = '(char16_t)(%s)' % DataVal
++        ValRef = valobj.CreateValueFromExpression('string', Expr)
++        Val = ValRef.GetSummary()
+     return Val
+ 	
+ def UESignedCharSummaryProvider(valobj,dict):
 diff --git a/Engine/Source/Runtime/ApplicationCore/Private/Linux/LinuxPlatformApplicationMisc.cpp b/Engine/Source/Runtime/ApplicationCore/Private/Linux/LinuxPlatformApplicationMisc.cpp
 index ca5f4b5fb5ff..a436a624d5b7 100644
 --- a/Engine/Source/Runtime/ApplicationCore/Private/Linux/LinuxPlatformApplicationMisc.cpp
diff --git a/build-everything.py b/build-everything.py
index e991383f..e5557826 100755
--- a/build-everything.py
+++ b/build-everything.py
@@ -229,6 +229,13 @@ WORKSPACE["settings"]["files.watcherExclude"] = {
     f'{UNREALENGINE}/Templates/**' : True
 }
 
+#
+# Tell the LLDB plugin not to dereference pointers.  This is dumb behavior,
+# it dereferences "char *" and shows only the first character.  Not dereferencing
+# the pointer shows the whole string.
+#
+WORKSPACE["settings"]["lldb.dereferencePointers"] = false
+
 #
 # Write Integration.code-workspace.
 #