[Lldb-commits] [lldb] [lldb] Add function to tell if a section is a GOT section (PR #165936)

Augusto Noronha via lldb-commits lldb-commits at lists.llvm.org
Wed Nov 5 12:55:19 PST 2025


augusto2112 wrote:

> Seems reasonable and straightforward. What does the swift plugin do with this information?

The shared cache can unique pointers in the GOT sections and null the original pointers, and when parsing Swift metadata, LLDB needs to know when translating a file address into a process address if it's potentially one of those moved addresses, and run some fallback logic if that's the case.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/165936


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