compnerd added inline comments.

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Comment at: lldb/source/Plugins/ObjectFile/COFF/ObjectFileCOFF.cpp:103-104
+
+  return new ObjectFileCOFF(module_sp, data_sp, data_offset, file, file_offset,
+                            length);
+}
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bulbazord wrote:
> Reading the implementation of the constructor, it looks like the constructor 
> can fail to initialize correctly (specifically `m_object` may not be 
> correctly populated). What are callers supposed to do in the way of 
> validation here? Maybe there is further validation we can do in this function 
> so that the constructor is only invoked if we're absolutely sure it will work?
There isn't much you can do IMO.  The `new` can fail just as well - at which 
point, what do we do?  The constructor should only really fail if the return 
type from libLLVMObject has suddenly changed into an invalid type.  That cast 
really cannot fail in a way that we can recover from.


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