[llvm-dev] Need help with code generation

[Hal Finkel via llvm-dev]

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> From: "David Blaikie via llvm-dev" <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>
> To: "Rafael Espíndola" <rafael.espindola at gmail.com>
> Cc: "llvm-dev" <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>, "Bruce Hoult"
> <bruce at hoult.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 10:18:03 AM
> Subject: Re: [llvm-dev] Need help with code generation

> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 4:27 AM, Rafael Espíndola <
> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org > wrote:

> > > Maybe not, but it's not impossible either - browsers manage to
> > > harden themselves against malicious input and they operate in a
> > > far hostile environment with many more input formats than we do.
> 

> > It is important to note how different they are. Both Firefox and
> 
> > Chromium have people working just to try to make them more secure.
> 
> > Compare that with LLVM: One week ago I pointed out that your patch
> 
> > (r263521) introduces a crash. It still hasn't been reverted or even
> 
> > acknowledge yet.
> 

> > > I'm not trying to shift your personal goal, or to direct the
> > > features that you choose to put your time into, but I am
> > > interested in project policy.
> 

> > Why do you care about policy that is not followed? A policy saying
> 
> > llvm should not crash on any input is as relevant as one that says
> 
> > that clang should keep bootstrapping in under one second.
> 

> It's pretty different when you say, essentially, that patches to
> address these things are unlikely to be accepted. It doesn't seem
> surprising that people wouldn't try to provide those patches and
> would choose not to use the project if that's the expressed policy
> of the developers on the project and doesn't line up with the needs
> of other people.
+1 

-Hal 

> > So, if we stick to reality, what we have is that lld (ELF and COFF)
> 
> > are already the most reliable parts of the toolchain. If not for
> > Rui
> 
> > and I being upfront about it most people would not even know that
> > you
> 
> > could crash it. So please, just let us keep working on the most
> 
> > reliable part of the toolchain.
> 

> > Cheers,
> 
> > Rafael
> 
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Hal Finkel 
Assistant Computational Scientist 
Leadership Computing Facility 
Argonne National Laboratory 
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