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@jonwis jonwis commented Dec 30, 2025

We have a lot of tracelogging, and we have a lot of things that are string views to log. Unfortunately, without direct support for counted strings in TLG, we see people doing this:

void do_thing(std::wstring_view x) {
    if (condition) {
        TraceLoggingWrite(g_Provider, TraceLoggingValue(std::wstring(x).c_str()));
    }
}

Or worse, winrt::hstring(x).c_str() - all to get the null-terminated form that TraceLoggingWrite/TraceLoggingXString require.

This change adds specializations for the _tlgAuto templates, so wil::zwstring_view, std::wstring_view, std::string_view, std::wstring, std::string, and winrt::hstring can all be used with TraceLoggingValue(). They can also be used as the parameter-type for the DEFINE_EVENT_* family of macro-stamped-out events.

A better test would use one of the ETW watchers to verify that the event got logged, but a manual use of xperf -start MyLogger -on bd2bf191-ac1a-4732-b563-bb3e3006f617 then run the tests, then xperf -stop -d something.etl and open something.etl with WPA.

The infrastructure is also present to support passing arrays/spans of scalar types, but left unimplemented for now.

Note: This change updates CMakePresets.json - in a stock install of Kitware.Cmake and LLVM.LLVM, the current presets fail; putting cacheVariables into a buildPreset is not support - it has to go into a configurePreset instead.

Note: This change updates the test script to allow selective disablement of the ASAN tests. My local machine is already on Win11, and hits the issues referenced in llvm/llvm-project#111638 and related. Sounds like my NTDLL has the new compiler codegen enabled.

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jonwis commented Dec 30, 2025

The exact output from the asan tests (x64) are:

Running sanitize-address tests...
==17176==interception_win: unhandled instruction at 0x7ffa0d133000: 44 0f b6 1a 4c 8b d2 48
==17176==interception_win: unhandled instruction at 0x7ffa0d133000: 44 0f b6 1a 4c 8b d2 48

Which maps to:

0:000> ln 0x7ffa0d133000
Browse module
Set bu breakpoint

(00007ffa`0d133000)   ucrtbase!strstr   |  (00007ffa`0d133120)   ucrtbase!initialize_c

... so this is llvm/llvm-project#125105

@jonwis jonwis changed the title User/jonwis/tracelogging for strings Enable string-views for use with Tracelogging Dec 30, 2025
#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include <utility>
#include <TraceLoggingProvider.h>

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Technically this is illegally reaching into internal implementation details of TraceLoggingProvider.h.

Probably the right thing to do is:

  1. Modify TraceLoggingProvider.h to expose enough "supported" machinery to support some C++ constructs.
  2. Modify WIL to use the supported mechanism if present, or to poly-fill the machinery if not present. (The poly-fill will only be used on old versions of TraceLoggingProvider.h, so future changes to TraceLoggingProvider.h internals will not break the poly-fill.

#if __cpp_lib_string_view >= 201606L

template <typename TContainer>
struct _tlgWrapBufferStlContainer

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The _tlg prefix is used to signal "TraceLoggingProvider.h-internal machinery". This prefix should not be used for "WIL-internal machinery", even if it is "WIL-internal TraceLogging-related" machinery.

};

template <typename TChar>
struct _tlgTypeMapStlString

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Should not use _tlg prefix for this.

};

template <typename TChar, typename TTraits>
TLG_INLINE auto _tlg_CALL _tlgWrapAuto(std::basic_string_view<TChar, TTraits> const& value)

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Don't use _tlg_CALL here -- it's an unnecessary use of TraceLoggingProvider.h internal machinery. Instead, use WINAPI or STDCALL or similar.

}

#define TraceLoggingStringView(pValue, ...) _tlgArgAuto(static_cast<std::string_view>(pValue), __VA_ARGS__)
#define TraceLoggingWideStringView(pValue, ...) _tlgArgAuto(static_cast<std::wstring_view>(pValue), __VA_ARGS__)

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The parameter to this macro should not be a pointer, so probably shouldn't be named pValue.

typedef UINT8 _tlgTypeType0;
typedef UINT16 _tlgTypeType1;
static bool const _tlgIsSimple = false;
static TlgIn_t const _tlgViewIn = wistd::is_same_v<TChar, char> ? TlgInCOUNTEDANSISTRING : TlgInCOUNTEDSTRING;

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Should probably be based on sizeof(TChar) so it can do something reasonable with char8_t and char16_t. (And it should error-out for sizes other than 1 and 2.)

};

template <typename TChar>
struct _tlgTypeMapStlString

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Should probably have a specialization for char8_t that sets OutType to UTF8.

};

template <typename TChar, typename TTraits>
TLG_INLINE auto _tlg_CALL _tlgWrapAuto(std::basic_string_view<TChar, TTraits> const& value)

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Don't need TLG_INLINE here -- it's an unnecessary obfuscation. Just use inline.

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