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In D59911#1446942 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D59911#1446942>, @jingham wrote:
> In this case it might be better to print an error at the problem site. You
> could certainly do this with an assert and a printf. lldbassert just
> provides a convenient way to do that.
>
> So I would say: use lldbassert for recoverable errors that you would want to
> catch at the error site in testing, and would want to warn about (as opposed
> to logging) at the error site in the field.
I just realized that this can cause problems with tests that specifically check
the handling of invalid/corrupted debug info (which we don't have many of right
now, but we probably should). Normally, you would want to test that lldb
gracefully recovers from such a situation, but then in a debug build this will
just crash. Theoretically, we could make this behavior dependent on at runtime
property (LLDB_ASSERT_SANE_COMPILER=True), but that may just make things too
complicated.
> However, I do agree that lldbasserts should be used sparingly. I'm thinking
> of the gdb "complaints" which would print a message for everything that
> wasn't copasetic in debug info. In practice you would either get no
> complaints, or you would get a new compiler that did one or two bad things
> MANY times, and so you would get a spew of complaints and you really wouldn't
> be able to use the debugger w/o turning them off altogether.
>
> So you have to make sure that they are not used in situations where they are
> going to be noisy.
It should be fairly easy to whip up a helper function, which reports an error
only once. Perhaps something like:
switch(form) {
...
default:
static std::once_flag report_bad_dw_form;
report_once(report_bad_dw_form, "Unknown form: {0}", form);
return something;
}
This would even allow you to place the once_flag inside some object, and get
the error reported once for each (e.g.) Module that we are processing.
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