[llvm-dev] Need help with code generation

[Quentin Colombet via llvm-dev]

Hi Rafael,

> On Mar 21, 2016, at 3:35 PM, Rafael Espíndola via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
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> On Mar 21, 2016 6:00 PM, "Lang Hames via llvm-dev" <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org <mailto:llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>> wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > My understanding of the earlier thread is that it ended with "We agree to disagree for now, and (potentially) revisit this later".
> >
> > I'm not interested in starting any new discussions at the moment, but I want to make sure we avoid the echo chamber effect too, so: The position of the mach-o tool developers is that crashing on malformed input should be considered a bug, and to that end we're working to improve our error detection and reporting.
> 
> Are you guys fixing llvm to also not crash on invalid input?
> 

I believe the IR verifier already complains on such cases.

Do you have cases where this leads to actual crashes?
That would be a bug, IMHO.

> What is the use case of having the property in one but not the other?
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> 

It is good to do the right thing even though the other libraries might not (yet)? ;)

Cheers,
Q.

> On a related note, it is the macho lld what currently prevents the asan bots from reporting failures. That would probably be a good place to start.
> 
> Cheers,
> Rafael
> 
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