[Bug]: Debugger fails to list and evaluate binding-pattern variables

[lochana-chathura]

Description

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• As you can observe in the following screenshot, binding pattern variables name, index1, postType, negType are not listed under the local variables on the left window.

• Also notice, variables that are listed already; pos, neg, and d, only the name is showing. Cannot expand those values and see what's inside.

• typing variables in the evaluator also fails.

Steps to Reproduce

1. checkout to this commit (ballerina-platform/nballerina@9c70a7c) in nballerina repo. Currently, it is the latest commit.
2. Apply the following small patch to run only the record-t.bal test file.

diff --git a/compiler/tests/testSuite.bal b/compiler/tests/testSuite.bal
index 73a088aa..7468a12b 100644
--- a/compiler/tests/testSuite.bal
+++ b/compiler/tests/testSuite.bal
@@ -154,6 +154,9 @@ function listSources(string initialChars) returns TestSuiteCases|io:Error|file:E
             if ext != ".bal" {
                 continue;
             }
+            if base != "record-t" {
+                continue;
+            }
             int? dash = base.lastIndexOf("-");
             test:assertTrue(dash is int, "test file name must be in <name>-<kind>.bal format");
             string testKind = base.substring(1 + <int>dash);

3. Add a debugging point at the following line. https://github.com/ballerina-platform/nballerina/blob/9c70a7cf23d11d2fc568a56ef04a709eefc51456/compiler/modules/types/mapping.bal#L166
4. Run the following test in debugger mode. https://github.com/ballerina-platform/nballerina/blob/9c70a7cf23d11d2fc568a56ef04a709eefc51456/compiler/tests/testSuite.bal#L38

Affected Version(s)

2201.8.5 at least

OS, DB, other environment details and versions

MacOS

[lochana-chathura]

• Also notice, variables that are listed already; pos, neg, and d, only the name is showing. Cannot expand those values and see what's inside.

Apparently, this is not specific to this scenario. Hence, extracted to a separate issue #42848

[NipunaRanasinghe]

Did some testing and this seems to be an issue in the Ballerina runtime, where the variable and line number tables not getting updated properly for binding pattern variables.

[NipunaRanasinghe]

Created #43623 to track the progress of the fixes from the compiler runtime side.