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title="NEW - BitStream reader ignores errors"
href="https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42311">42311</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>BitStream reader ignores errors
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<th>Product</th>
<td>clang
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<th>Version</th>
<td>trunk
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>All
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<th>OS</th>
<td>All
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>enhancement
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>P
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<th>Component</th>
<td>Frontend
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>unassignedclangbugs@nondot.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>llvm-bugzilla@jfbastien.com
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<th>CC</th>
<td>llvm-bugs@lists.llvm.org, neeilans@live.com, richard-llvm@metafoo.co.uk
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<pre>The bitstream reader handles errors poorly. The has two effects:
* Bugs in file handling (especially modules) manifest as an "unexpected end of
file" crash
* Users of clang as a library end up aborting because the code unconditionally
calls `report_fatal_error`
The bitstream reader should be more resilient and return Expected / Error as
soon as an error is encountered, not way late like it does now.
This will take a few changes to get to: propagating the errors is a huge patch!
As we propagate them there's places where we can offer better diagnostics (for
example, the file's name, or where we were in the file / what we were parsing).
Further, many places ignore filesystem errors. Those should be nodiscard.</pre>
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