llvm-project/libcxx/utils
Louis Dionne b0fd9497af [libc++] Add a lightweight overridable assertion handler
This patch adds a lightweight assertion handler mechanism that can be
overriden at link-time in a fashion similar to `operator new`.

This is a third take on https://llvm.org/D121123 (which allowed customizing
the assertion handler at compile-time), and https://llvm.org/D119969
(which allowed customizing the assertion handler at runtime only).

This approach is, I think, the best of all three explored approaches.
Indeed, replacing the assertion handler in user code is ergonomic,
yet we retain the ability to provide a custom assertion handler when
deploying to older platforms that don't have a default handler in
the dylib.

As-is, this patch provides a pretty good amount of backwards compatibility
with the previous debug mode:

- Code that used to set _LIBCPP_DEBUG=0 in order to get basic assertions
  in their code will still get basic assertions out of the box, but
  those assertions will be using the new assertion handler support.
- Code that was previously compiled with references to __libcpp_debug_function
  and friends will work out-of-the-box, no changes required. This is
  because we provide the same symbols in the dylib as we used to.
- Code that used to set a custom __libcpp_debug_function will stop
  compiling, because we don't provide that declaration anymore. Users
  will have to migrate to the new way of setting a custom assertion
  handler, which is extremely easy. I suspect that pool of users is
  very limited, so breaking them at compile-time is probably acceptable.

The main downside of this approach is that code being compiled with
assertions enabled but deploying to an older platform where the assertion
handler didn't exist yet will fail to compile. However users can easily
fix the problem by providing a custom assertion handler and defining
the _LIBCPP_AVAILABILITY_CUSTOM_ASSERTION_HANDLER_PROVIDED macro to
let the library know about the custom handler. In a way, this is
actually a feature because it avoids a load-time error that one would
otherwise get when trying to run the code on the older target.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D121478
2022-03-23 15:35:46 -04:00
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ci Revert "[bootstrap] Allow passing options to sub-builds for all targets" 2022-03-21 22:21:30 -07:00
gdb/libcxx [libc++] Remove _LIBCPP_ABI_UNSTABLE 2022-02-08 15:18:09 -05:00
libcxx [libc++] Add a lightweight overridable assertion handler 2022-03-23 15:35:46 -04:00
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CMakeLists.txt [libc++][NFC] Make private header generation CMake comment more consistent 2021-07-29 14:17:04 -04:00
cat_files.py
generate_abi_list.py generate_header_tests.py: Sort the header files ASCIIbetically. 2020-12-14 09:56:07 -05:00
generate_feature_test_macro_components.py [libc++] Replace _LIBCPP_HAS_NO_CONCEPTS with _LIBCPP_STD_VER > 17. NFCI. 2022-03-13 12:32:06 -04:00
generate_header_inclusion_tests.py [libc++] Add missing header <cuchar> 2022-03-07 08:48:50 -05:00
generate_header_tests.py [libc++] Remove _LIBCXX_MODULES_BUILD and ext/ headers from header tests 2022-03-03 19:53:23 +01:00
generate_private_header_tests.py [libc++] Revert "Protect users from relying on detail headers" & related changes 2022-03-01 08:20:24 -05:00
graph_header_deps.py [libc++] Add the version header to all headers. 2022-01-04 19:50:59 +01:00
merge_archives.py Remove unused imports. 2021-08-17 13:04:02 -07:00
run.py [libc++] Fix codesigning in run.py 2021-04-01 13:39:49 -04:00
ssh.py [libc++][NFC] Resolve Python 2 FIXME 2021-11-12 13:55:22 -05:00
sym_diff.py