[Lldb-commits] [PATCH] D59562: [SymbolFileDWARF] Introduce DWARFContext

[Zachary Turner via Phabricator via lldb-commits]

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Comment at: lldb/source/Plugins/SymbolFile/DWARF/DWARFContext.h:30
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+  const DWARFDataExtractor *maybeLoadArangesData();
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JDevlieghere wrote:
> Why do we need these two methods? I presume it's because one does work and the other doesn't? If I understand the code correctly, `LoadOrGetSection` will initialize the optional, so could you just check the optional to determine where we should try to do work or not?
It's because one of them is `const` and a const version of the function cannot do any work.  It's possible we won't ever need this, and we'll always want a "get or create" function, but i can imagine scenarios where we have a const reference or const pointer.

This is always a problem with these lazy type interfaces, because in that case should you actually use `const_cast` or should you just fail and return nullptr?  It's a tough call.  I chose to explicitly embed into the name whether the function was doing work (e.g. `maybeLoad`) versus being purely a getter that will never do work (e.g. `get`).


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