[lldb-dev] Platform::GetFile overloaded virtual function

[Greg Clayton]

On Jan 15, 2014, at 1:26 PM, Steve Pucci <spucci at google.com> wrote:

> Thanks, Greg.  I'm still a bit confused about the implementation of GetFile without the UUID, though.  Is it a bug that this method isn't implemented on all of the Platform implementations?  

The other platforms _should_ be implementing this and yes it is a bug on those platforms that require this support. Platforms are optional and not all functions need to be supported just to call a platform a platform. So this is desired, but not mandatory. It is required if you want to support getting remote files, so any platform that wants to support running a remote test suite should support this function.


> I guess, in any case, it would be better to avoid the confusion by renaming the other method, though, as you propose.  I'll do that.

Sounds good.

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> Thanks again,
>    Steve
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> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Greg Clayton <gclayton at apple.com> wrote:
> On MacOSX we have UUIDs built into all mach-o files for each architecture slice and we sometimes know we are looking for an executable with a specific UUID after the dynamic loader tell use we want /usr/lib/libfoo.dylib with UUID XXXXX. We also have system services that we can query saying "please locate a debug symbol file for UUID XXXX", so even if the path is wrong, we might be able to find the file we are looking for if the "platform_file" path is incorrect.
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