[Lldb-commits] [PATCH] D37651: Fix for bug 34532 - A few rough corners related to post-mortem debugging (core/minidump)

[Zachary Turner via lldb-commits]

On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 4:22 PM Jason Molenda via lldb-commits <
lldb-commits at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> fwiw the reason the JIT came up is because we had an instance where the
> older MCJIT wasn't handling a relocation in thumb code about six weeks ago
> and we only caught the crash a couple days before we released a beta of
> it.  It definitely can happen with MCJIT.  I think with ORC JIT this is a
> not going to be a problem -- but it's a good example of a class of problem
> where the subsystem (jit) considers the failure catastrophic, whereas the
> user will find another way to do their work.  When it takes the developer
> an hour to get to the point of failure, they try to print a variable, lldb
> ingests a ton of debug info and then we crash because some little detail
> was not valid, or they try to run an expression and the debugger crashes
> with an unsupported relocation, I can't overstate what an enormous failure
> of the debugger that is.
>

I disagree.  It sounds like a success.  As a result of it crashing six
weeks ago, you learned the bug exists, and now Lang has fixed it.
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