[Lldb-commits] [PATCH] D83327: [lldb/Core] Fix incomplete type variable dereferencing crash.

Tue Jul 7 11:21:18 PDT 2020

davide added a comment.

In D83327#2136842 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D83327#2136842>, @jingham wrote:

> In D83327#2136814 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D83327#2136814>, @davide wrote:
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> > Aside from cosmetics, I'm not entirely sure this is the correct fix. Why are we calling this code _at all_ if the type is incomplete?
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> Doing so allows one to write a synthetic child provider that provides the fields for an incomplete type.  This is useful if you don't have debug info for a given type but know its layouts by some other means.

Interesting, thanks. Do we have an example of when this triggers?

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