[PATCH] D58514: Avoid needlessly copying blocks that initialize or are assigned to local auto variables to the heap

[John McCall via Phabricator via cfe-commits]

rjmccall added a comment.

In D58514#1435228 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D58514#1435228>, @wuhao5 wrote:

> > Okay, so really just a block self-reference.  We could really just add a feature for that that would avoid both the complexity and the expense of the self-capture dance.
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> Is there a plan to cover this case? or is it a legitimate use case that Clang should handle?


You are currently relying on something that ARC doesn't guarantee, so the client code should be fixed to explicitly copy the block.  I think we would be happy to consider a proposal in the long run to allow blocks to self-reference more easily, which will effectively bypass the problem.


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