[cfe-dev] Changing module maps

[Sean Silva]

Have you looked at what we currently do? I think there is at least some
effort to detect invalid compiled modules; could you see why exactly it is
failing?

-- Sean Silva

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Thompson, John <
John_Thompson at playstation.sony.com> wrote:

>  Hi,
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> I’ve experienced a few situations where I’ve been changing a module map
> during development, or passing module maps to others to try, who then get
> mysterious warnings or errors, such as:
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>
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> test.cpp:2:2: warning: missing submodule
> '_Builtin_intrinsics.intel.x86intrin'
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>       [-Wincomplete-umbrella]
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> #include <x86intrin.h>
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> ^       ~
>
> 1 warning generated.
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> Sometimes clang detects it, and issues a relevant warning.  Other times it
> does not.  (Perhaps due to a time tag being earlier?)  The recovery is to
> delete the module cache manually.
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> Is there something we could do to better detect a changed module map, and
> perhaps even better, also automatically delete the prior module cache to
> avoid potential problems?  Checksum/CRC the module map?  Use size and file
> time?
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> Thanks.
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> -John
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