From: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>
To: Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile@majumdar.org.uk>
Cc: Linux-Sparse <linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Error handling in sparse-llvm
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2017 20:53:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170312195315.bdjcqd5guhvkwvfj@macpro.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACXZuxcU4ZQ0=D67F4EkqyFKANQVjhSxfSzsqdzXbNXYsGXGfQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 07:40:18PM +0000, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At present there are a bunch of asserts for scenarios not handled by
> Sparse LLVM backend. A more robust error handling method is needed
> that works even in release builds, and doesn't abort the process.
> Given the way the code is structured currently, I was thinking maybe
> it will be easiest to use setjmp/longjmp mechanism to terminate the
> LLVM backend on error. I am not sure that this entirely safe with LLVM
> as the LLVM code is C++ - I think it might be okay as long as the LLVM
> module / context is properly disposed at the end.
By far, the best thing that can be done is to add support for the missing
features/scenarios so that those asserts can be removed.
-- Luc Van Oostenryck
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-12 19:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-12 19:40 Error handling in sparse-llvm Dibyendu Majumdar
2017-03-12 19:53 ` Luc Van Oostenryck [this message]
2017-03-13 10:43 ` Dibyendu Majumdar
2017-03-13 11:00 ` Dibyendu Majumdar
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