[lldb-dev] Too many ModuleSP references

[Greg Clayton via lldb-dev]

> On Feb 21, 2017, at 5:08 PM, Jim Ingham <jingham at apple.com> wrote:
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>> On Feb 21, 2017, at 4:49 PM, Jim Ingham via lldb-dev <lldb-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
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>>> On Feb 21, 2017, at 4:24 PM, Greg Clayton via lldb-dev <lldb-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
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>>>> - StepOverBreakpointTestCase: Have the test not store the breakpoints
>>>> in the test case object. Basically, declare that this is not a bug,
>>>> and it's the users responsibility to clean up necessary objects.
>>> 
>>> It would be nice to avoid this.
>>> 
>>>> 
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>> I don't agree with this.  I think trying to force folks using the API from Python to manually clear all stored objects would be really obnoxious.  If anything, we should figure out how to make this accidental failure into an intended failure so we can make sure we don't end up requiring this kind of micro-management.
> 
> It's possible you meant "it would be nice to avoid it's being the user's responsibility to clean up necessary objects", in which case sorry for mis-reading but happy we agree...


Yep, that is what I meant. No one should have to worry about cleansing any variables. It should just work. So we need to pick the lldb::SB objects that have strong reference very carefully.
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