<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 11:07 AM Greg Clayton <<a href="mailto:clayborg@gmail.com">clayborg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Sep 12, 2017, at 10:10 AM, Zachary Turner <<a href="mailto:zturner@google.com" target="_blank">zturner@google.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-1227081717674903254Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 10:03 AM Greg Clayton <<a href="mailto:clayborg@gmail.com" target="_blank">clayborg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Sep 12, 2017, at 9:53 AM, Zachary Turner <<a href="mailto:zturner@google.com" target="_blank">zturner@google.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-1227081717674903254m_2650505131634146307Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr">If you had just logged it, the bug would still not be fixed because nobody would know about it. I also can't believe we have to keep saying this :-/</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>By log, I mean Host::SystemLog(...) which would come out in the command line. Not "log enable ...". So users would see the issue and report the bug. Crashing doesn't mean people always report the bug. </div></div></blockquote><div>I mentioned earlier in the thread that I assumed Xcode had an automatic crash that would handle the crash and automatically upload it to Apple. Is this really not the case? If core dumps are too big, why not just a stack trace? Surely the Xcode team must have some kind of internal metrics system to track stability.</div></div></div>
</div></blockquote></div><br></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>They do just upload text crash logs. It doesn't tell us what expression triggered the issue though. It shows a crash in an expression, but doesn't show the expression text as this violates privacy. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So, you do get a bug report when a crash occurs then. In contrast to the case where you simply log something, and don't get a crash report.</div><div><br></div><div>In some cases, you can look at the code and figure out why it crashed. In other cases the bug occurs extremely infrequently (you can build heuristic matching of call-stacks into your infrastructure that processes the crash logs). If it's a high incidence crasher then you do some investigation. And the good news is, once you fix it, you've *actually* fixed it. Now instead of hundreds of thousands of people using something that doesn't work quite right for presumably the rest of the software's life (since nobody knows about the bug), they have something that actually works.</div><div><br></div><div>There's probably some initial pain associated with this approach since the test coverage is so low right now (I came up with about ~25% code coverage in a test I ran a while back). When you get this higher, your tests start catching all of the high incidence stuff, and then you're left with only occasional crashes.</div><div><br></div><div>And since you have the out of process stuff, it doesn't even bring down Xcode anymore. Just a debugging session. That's an amazing price to pay for having instant visibility into a huge class of bugs that LLDB is currently willfully ignoring.</div></div></div>