[LLVMdev] LLVM asserts

[Chris Lattner]

On Aug 19, 2009, at 2:57 PM, David Greene wrote:

> On Wednesday 19 August 2009 16:43, Eli Friedman wrote:
>
>>> We're dealing with this, but it's not a particularly friendly way to
>>> operate.  Most compilers have some kind of error reporting mechanism
>>> and it would be helpful if LLVM provided a way to turn asserts and
>>> aborts into hooks that could be plugged into an existing  
>>> infrastructure.
>>>
>>> Signal handlers aren't the best solution.  Like I said, we're  
>>> dealing
>>> with it but it's something we should be aware of long-term.
>>
>> C++ isn't a safe language; there is in fact such a thing as an
>> unrecoverable error, and there isn't really anything we can do about
>> it.
>
> It's not about recovery, it's about message reporting.  Right now  
> the LLVM
> abort messages are formatted completely differently than aborts from  
> other
> parts of our compiler.  That's not friendly to users.

This is what ErrorReporting.h is all about.

-Chris