[Lldb-commits] [PATCH] D46810: 3/3: Fix DWARFUnit::GetUnitDIEPtrOnly stale pointer

[Jan Kratochvil via Phabricator via lldb-commits]

jankratochvil added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D46810#1098110, @clayborg wrote:

> So this problem exists both in the LLDB and LLVM DWARF parsers. I am not sure this fix is safe. I would rather fix this by fixing DWARFDIE class to "do the right thing". We should be able to teach the DWARFDIE class to replace its "m_die" with the updated "m_die" if a method ever causes DWARFDIE to need to expand all DIEs in a DWARFUnit. That seems like a much safer fix. Having m_first_die is not safe because it if you call DWARFDIE::GetFirstChild() it will just add 1 to the "m_die" and we will crash. All parent, sibling and child code just do pointer arithmetic to find their counterparts. So since DWARFDIE has the "DWARFUnit *m_cu;" and "DWARFDebugInfoEntry *m_die;" we should use DWARFDIE to abstract this from users. Anyone playing directly with DWARFDebugInfoEntry must know the rules and do the right thing or just use DWARFDIE.


Is this statement still valid now with `DWARFBaseDIE`?


https://reviews.llvm.org/D46810