[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 Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 6:11 PM Jim Ingham via Phabricator <
reviews at reviews.llvm.org> wrote:

>
> I know there is debate about this one side and another but for lldb this
> is a settled issue.  Unless you really are in a state where the world is
> about to come crashing down around you, you can't raise a fatal error in
> lldb.  And in this case, the world is only very minorly strange, so it is
> certainly not appropriate.


I don't agree that this is a settled issue in LLDB.

For starters, clang already does this, and LLDB links against libclang.

Second, a year or so ago, i recall Greg saying that LLDB now runs out of
process in Xcode, which should make this a non issue.

Finally, by allowing inconsistent state to propagate through the code you
are only hurting yourself, as you're ultimately not preventing any
crashes.  It'll just crash later when you de reference a null pointer or
read some corrupt memory.  Furthermore, it actually increases the
likelihood of introducing bugs, due to the added complexity and technical
debt introduced by untested code paths

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