dblaikie added inline comments.
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Comment at:
lldb/test/API/functionalities/data-formatter/data-formatter-stl/libcxx/string/main.cpp:102
+ std::string *not_a_string = (std::string *) 0x0;
+ touch_string(*not_a_string);
return 0;
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teemperor wrote:
> dblaikie wrote:
> > JDevlieghere wrote:
> > > shafik wrote:
> > > > This is undefined behavior and I AFAICT this won't pass a sanitized
> > > > build, amazingly even if I use `__attribute__((no_sanitize("address",
> > > > "undefined")))` : https://godbolt.org/z/4TGPbrYhq
> > > Definitely UB, but the sanitized bot builds LLDB with the sanitizers, not
> > > the test cases, so this should be "fine".
> > Seems best avoided if possible though, yeah? What's trying to be
> > demonstrated by this test?
> >
> > What if the function took a std::string* instead of std::string&, and the
> > caller doesn't need to dereference that pointer - it could call some other,
> > unrelated function to act as a stop-point for the debugger?
> >
> > & then the "printing a bad string" Could be tested by printing an
> > expression, like "p *str" that dereferences in the expression?
> >
> > Or is the issue only present through the auto-printing of variables in
> > parameters in a stack trace, and not present when using the user-defined
> > expression evaluator?
> > This is undefined behavior and I AFAICT this won't pass a sanitized build,
> > amazingly even if I use __attribute__((no_sanitize("address",
> > "undefined"))) : https://godbolt.org/z/4TGPbrYhq
>
> This is just a segfault unrelated to sanitizers.
>
> > & then the "printing a bad string" Could be tested by printing an
> > expression, like "p *str" that dereferences in the expression?
> > Or is the issue only present through the auto-printing of variables in
> > parameters in a stack trace, and not present when using the user-defined
> > expression evaluator?
>
> The expression evaluator is already erroring out when printing that variable
> (or doing the `*str` equivalent) so I believe this is just about directly
> accessing the variables. The same goes for situations like `frame var *str`
> which already handle the error that we now also check for here. I *believe*
> we really need a the null reference as in the current test so that we end up
> in a situation where the formatter has to handle the "parent is null" error
> itself in this code path because of a null reference.
Ah, that's a pity. Oh well.
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