The fix is in:

https://reviews.llvm.org/D95164

but without any doc verbiage.

Jim

> On Jan 21, 2021, at 12:04 PM, Jim Ingham via lldb-dev 
> <lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> 
> We have two API's:
> 
> SBDebugger.CreateTargetWithFileAndTargetTriple
> SBDebugger.CreateTargetWithFileAndArch
> 
> Both take a path and a string.  Currently, their implementations are almost 
> identical, the major difference being that the first one ignores the error 
> from target creation, but I don't think that part is on purpose.
> 
> I can't find anywhere where we say what the difference between a 
> "TargetTriple" and an "Arch" is.  I think the difference is that for an Arch 
> you are allowed to pass lldb.LLDB_ARCH_DEFAULT as well as a target triple.  
> At least the example at the top of SBDebugger.i indicates this should work.  
> Unsurprisingly, since the two implementations are functionally the same, the 
> call we suggest in SBDebugger.i using LLDB_ARCH_DEFAULT doesn't in fact work. 
>  
> 
> There's also a FindTargetByFileAndArch that also takes 
> lldb.LLDB_ARCH_DEFAULT, but it actually does the work to translate the string 
> using the current Platform, and that does work.
> 
> The SBDebugger API is easy to fix, but I wanted to also put in something 
> saying what the difference was except I'm not sure what to say.
> 
> Jim
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