> On Dec 21, 2017, at 7:24 AM, Pavel Labath via lldb-commits 
> <lldb-commits@lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> 
> On 21 December 2017 at 15:17, Pavel Labath <lab...@google.com> wrote:
>> Right now I'm looking at two (ignoring the debug-info multiplication):
>> TestExprs2.py and TestTopLevelExprs.py
>> TestExprs2 is encountering ambiguity when looking up the "environ"
>> symbol (the dynamic linker contains an extra copy). I think I know how
>> to handle that.
> 
> Ok, I take that back. I was hoping I could just implement
> ObjectFileELF::GetIsDynamicLinkEditor, but it seems that function is
> not actually called from anywhere.
> 
> Does anyone have more background about that function?

dyld on MacOS has exported functions like "malloc", and "free" and many many 
others that mirror libc function needed to bootstrap dyld before it has 
actually loaded libc into the process. When someone types "b malloc" on the 
lldb command line, we would end up setting breakpoints in both dyld and in libc 
which isn't what the user wanted. This flag is was used to say "this library 
defines many functions that are similar to other libraries, but no one wants to 
actually stop in these". This used to be used in:

Platform::ModuleIsExcludedForUnconstrainedSearches(...)

This is a function that says "for my platform, don't include this library in 
global searches. We eventually added ObjectFile::GetType() which can return 
ObjectFile::eTypeDynamicLinker. This is what is currently used in 
PlatformDarwin::ModuleIsExcludedForUnconstrainedSearches(...) to avoid dyld 
when doing global searches.

So it might be as simple as making sure that the dynamic linker shared 
ObjectFile returns ObjectFile::eTypeDynamicLinker and then adding 
PlatformPosix::ModuleIsExcludedForUnconstrainedSearches(...) that does 
something similar to 
PlatformDarwin::ModuleIsExcludedForUnconstrainedSearches(...).



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