diff --git a/lldb/source/Plugins/Language/ObjC/Cocoa.cpp b/lldb/source/Plugins/Language/ObjC/Cocoa.cpp
--- a/lldb/source/Plugins/Language/ObjC/Cocoa.cpp
+++ b/lldb/source/Plugins/Language/ObjC/Cocoa.cpp
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 
 #include "Cocoa.h"
 #include "NSString.h"
+#include "ObjCConstants.h"
 
 #include "Plugins/LanguageRuntime/ObjC/AppleObjCRuntime/AppleObjCRuntime.h"
 #include "Plugins/TypeSystem/Clang/TypeSystemClang.h"
@@ -30,37 +31,6 @@
 #include "llvm/ADT/APInt.h"
 #include "llvm/ADT/bit.h"
 
-// Objective-C Type Encoding
-#define _C_ID       '@'
-#define _C_CLASS    '#'
-#define _C_SEL      ':'
-#define _C_CHR      'c'
-#define _C_UCHR     'C'
-#define _C_SHT      's'
-#define _C_USHT     'S'
-#define _C_INT      'i'
-#define _C_UINT     'I'
-#define _C_LNG      'l'
-#define _C_ULNG     'L'
-#define _C_LNG_LNG  'q'
-#define _C_ULNG_LNG 'Q'
-#define _C_FLT      'f'
-#define _C_DBL      'd'
-#define _C_BFLD     'b'
-#define _C_BOOL     'B'
-#define _C_VOID     'v'
-#define _C_UNDEF    '?'
-#define _C_PTR      '^'
-#define _C_CHARPTR  '*'
-#define _C_ATOM     '%'
-#define _C_ARY_B    '['
-#define _C_ARY_E    ']'
-#define _C_UNION_B  '('
-#define _C_UNION_E  ')'
-#define _C_STRUCT_B '{'
-#define _C_STRUCT_E '}'
-#define _C_VECTOR   '!'
-#define _C_CONST    'r'
 
 using namespace lldb;
 using namespace lldb_private;
diff --git a/lldb/source/Plugins/Language/ObjC/ObjCConstants.h b/lldb/source/Plugins/Language/ObjC/ObjCConstants.h
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lldb/source/Plugins/Language/ObjC/ObjCConstants.h
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+//===-- ObjCConstants.h------------------------------------------*- C++ -*-===//
+//
+// Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
+// See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
+//
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+
+#ifndef LLDB_SOURCE_PLUGINS_LANGUAGE_OBJC_OBJCCONSTANTS_H
+#define LLDB_SOURCE_PLUGINS_LANGUAGE_OBJC_OBJCCONSTANTS_H
+
+// Objective-C Type Encoding
+#define _C_ID '@'
+#define _C_CLASS '#'
+#define _C_SEL ':'
+#define _C_CHR 'c'
+#define _C_UCHR 'C'
+#define _C_SHT 's'
+#define _C_USHT 'S'
+#define _C_INT 'i'
+#define _C_UINT 'I'
+#define _C_LNG 'l'
+#define _C_ULNG 'L'
+#define _C_LNG_LNG 'q'
+#define _C_ULNG_LNG 'Q'
+#define _C_FLT 'f'
+#define _C_DBL 'd'
+#define _C_BFLD 'b'
+#define _C_BOOL 'B'
+#define _C_VOID 'v'
+#define _C_UNDEF '?'
+#define _C_PTR '^'
+#define _C_CHARPTR '*'
+#define _C_ATOM '%'
+#define _C_ARY_B '['
+#define _C_ARY_E ']'
+#define _C_UNION_B '('
+#define _C_UNION_E ')'
+#define _C_STRUCT_B '{'
+#define _C_STRUCT_E '}'
+#define _C_VECTOR '!'
+#define _C_CONST 'r'
+
+#endif // LLDB_SOURCE_PLUGINS_LANGUAGE_OBJC_OBJCCONSTANTS_H
diff --git a/lldb/source/Plugins/LanguageRuntime/ObjC/AppleObjCRuntime/AppleObjCTypeEncodingParser.h b/lldb/source/Plugins/LanguageRuntime/ObjC/AppleObjCRuntime/AppleObjCTypeEncodingParser.h
--- a/lldb/source/Plugins/LanguageRuntime/ObjC/AppleObjCRuntime/AppleObjCTypeEncodingParser.h
+++ b/lldb/source/Plugins/LanguageRuntime/ObjC/AppleObjCRuntime/AppleObjCTypeEncodingParser.h
@@ -9,11 +9,11 @@
 #ifndef LLDB_SOURCE_PLUGINS_LANGUAGERUNTIME_OBJC_APPLEOBJCRUNTIME_APPLEOBJCTYPEENCODINGPARSER_H
 #define LLDB_SOURCE_PLUGINS_LANGUAGERUNTIME_OBJC_APPLEOBJCRUNTIME_APPLEOBJCTYPEENCODINGPARSER_H
 
-#include "clang/AST/ASTContext.h"
-
+#include "Plugins/Language/ObjC/ObjCConstants.h"
+#include "Plugins/LanguageRuntime/ObjC/ObjCLanguageRuntime.h"
 #include "lldb/lldb-private.h"
 
-#include "Plugins/LanguageRuntime/ObjC/ObjCLanguageRuntime.h"
+#include "clang/AST/ASTContext.h"
 
 namespace lldb_private {
 class StringLexer;
diff --git a/lldb/source/Plugins/LanguageRuntime/ObjC/AppleObjCRuntime/AppleObjCTypeEncodingParser.cpp b/lldb/source/Plugins/LanguageRuntime/ObjC/AppleObjCRuntime/AppleObjCTypeEncodingParser.cpp
--- a/lldb/source/Plugins/LanguageRuntime/ObjC/AppleObjCRuntime/AppleObjCTypeEncodingParser.cpp
+++ b/lldb/source/Plugins/LanguageRuntime/ObjC/AppleObjCRuntime/AppleObjCTypeEncodingParser.cpp
@@ -78,13 +78,13 @@
 
 clang::QualType AppleObjCTypeEncodingParser::BuildStruct(
     TypeSystemClang &ast_ctx, StringLexer &type, bool for_expression) {
-  return BuildAggregate(ast_ctx, type, for_expression, '{', '}',
+  return BuildAggregate(ast_ctx, type, for_expression, _C_STRUCT_B, _C_STRUCT_E,
                         clang::TTK_Struct);
 }
 
 clang::QualType AppleObjCTypeEncodingParser::BuildUnion(
     TypeSystemClang &ast_ctx, StringLexer &type, bool for_expression) {
-  return BuildAggregate(ast_ctx, type, for_expression, '(', ')',
+  return BuildAggregate(ast_ctx, type, for_expression, _C_UNION_B, _C_UNION_E,
                         clang::TTK_Union);
 }
 
@@ -148,11 +148,11 @@
 
 clang::QualType AppleObjCTypeEncodingParser::BuildArray(
     TypeSystemClang &ast_ctx, StringLexer &type, bool for_expression) {
-  if (!type.NextIf('['))
+  if (!type.NextIf(_C_ARY_B))
     return clang::QualType();
   uint32_t size = ReadNumber(type);
   clang::QualType element_type(BuildType(ast_ctx, type, for_expression));
-  if (!type.NextIf(']'))
+  if (!type.NextIf(_C_ARY_E))
     return clang::QualType();
   CompilerType array_type(ast_ctx.CreateArrayType(
       CompilerType(&ast_ctx, element_type.getAsOpaquePtr()), size, false));
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@
 // dynamic typing will resolve things for us anyway
 clang::QualType AppleObjCTypeEncodingParser::BuildObjCObjectPointerType(
     TypeSystemClang &clang_ast_ctx, StringLexer &type, bool for_expression) {
-  if (!type.NextIf('@'))
+  if (!type.NextIf(_C_ID))
     return clang::QualType();
 
   clang::ASTContext &ast_ctx = clang_ast_ctx.getASTContext();
@@ -203,9 +203,9 @@
                      2); // undo our consumption of the string and of the quotes
         name.clear();
         break;
-      case '}':
-      case ')':
-      case ']':
+      case _C_STRUCT_E:
+      case _C_UNION_E:
+      case _C_ARY_E:
       case '"':
         // the quoted string is a class name – see the rule
         break;
@@ -260,13 +260,13 @@
   switch (type.Peek()) {
   default:
     break;
-  case '{':
+  case _C_STRUCT_B:
     return BuildStruct(clang_ast_ctx, type, for_expression);
-  case '[':
+  case _C_ARY_B:
     return BuildArray(clang_ast_ctx, type, for_expression);
-  case '(':
+  case _C_UNION_B:
     return BuildUnion(clang_ast_ctx, type, for_expression);
-  case '@':
+  case _C_ID:
     return BuildObjCObjectPointerType(clang_ast_ctx, type, for_expression);
   }
 
@@ -274,46 +274,46 @@
   default:
     type.PutBack(1);
     return clang::QualType();
-  case 'c':
+  case _C_CHR:
     return ast_ctx.CharTy;
-  case 'i':
+  case _C_INT:
     return ast_ctx.IntTy;
-  case 's':
+  case _C_SHT:
     return ast_ctx.ShortTy;
-  case 'l':
+  case _C_LNG:
     return ast_ctx.getIntTypeForBitwidth(32, true);
   // this used to be done like this:
   //   return clang_ast_ctx->GetIntTypeFromBitSize(32, true).GetQualType();
   // which uses one of the constants if one is available, but we don't think
   // all this work is necessary.
-  case 'q':
+  case _C_LNG_LNG:
     return ast_ctx.LongLongTy;
-  case 'C':
+  case _C_UCHR:
     return ast_ctx.UnsignedCharTy;
-  case 'I':
+  case _C_UINT:
     return ast_ctx.UnsignedIntTy;
-  case 'S':
+  case _C_USHT:
     return ast_ctx.UnsignedShortTy;
-  case 'L':
+  case _C_ULNG:
     return ast_ctx.getIntTypeForBitwidth(32, false);
-  // see note for 'l'
-  case 'Q':
+  // see note for _C_LNG
+  case _C_ULNG_LNG:
     return ast_ctx.UnsignedLongLongTy;
-  case 'f':
+  case _C_FLT:
     return ast_ctx.FloatTy;
-  case 'd':
+  case _C_DBL:
     return ast_ctx.DoubleTy;
-  case 'B':
+  case _C_BOOL:
     return ast_ctx.BoolTy;
-  case 'v':
+  case _C_VOID:
     return ast_ctx.VoidTy;
-  case '*':
+  case _C_CHARPTR:
     return ast_ctx.getPointerType(ast_ctx.CharTy);
-  case '#':
+  case _C_CLASS:
     return ast_ctx.getObjCClassType();
-  case ':':
+  case _C_SEL:
     return ast_ctx.getObjCSelType();
-  case 'b': {
+  case _C_BFLD: {
     uint32_t size = ReadNumber(type);
     if (bitfield_bit_size) {
       *bitfield_bit_size = size;
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@
     } else
       return clang::QualType();
   }
-  case 'r': {
+  case _C_CONST: {
     clang::QualType target_type =
         BuildType(clang_ast_ctx, type, for_expression);
     if (target_type.isNull())
@@ -331,8 +331,8 @@
     else
       return ast_ctx.getConstType(target_type);
   }
-  case '^': {
-    if (!for_expression && type.NextIf('?')) {
+  case _C_PTR: {
+    if (!for_expression && type.NextIf(_C_UNDEF)) {
       // if we are not supporting the concept of unknownAny, but what is being
       // created here is an unknownAny*, then we can just get away with a void*
       // this is theoretically wrong (in the same sense as 'theoretically
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@
         return ast_ctx.getPointerType(target_type);
     }
   }
-  case '?':
+  case _C_UNDEF:
     return for_expression ? ast_ctx.UnknownAnyTy : clang::QualType();
   }
 }