llvm-objcopy: Improve/simplify llvm::Error handling during notes iteration
Using an Error as an out parameter from an indirect operation like iteration as described in the documentation ( http://llvm.org/docs/ProgrammersManual.html#building-fallible-iterators-and-iterator-ranges ) seems to be a little fussy - so here's /one/ possible solution, though I'm not sure it's the right one. Alternatively such APIs may be better off being switched to a standard algorithm style, where they take a lambda to do the iteration work that is then called back into (eg: "Error e = obj.for_each_note([](const Note& N) { ... });"). This would be safer than having an unwritten assumption that the user of such an iteration cannot return early from the inside of the function - and must always exit through the gift shop... I mean error checking. (even though it's guaranteed that if you're mid-way through processing an iteration, it's not in an error state). Alternatively we'd need some other (the super untrustworthy/thing we've generally tried to avoid) error handling primitive that actually clears the error state entirely so it's safe to ignore. Fleshed this solution out a bit further during review - it now relies on op==/op!= comparison as the equivalent to "if (Err)" testing the Error. So just like an Error must be checked (even if it's in a success state), the Error hiding in the iterator must be checked after each increment (including by comparison with another iterator - perhaps this could be constrained to only checking if the iterator is compared to the end iterator? Not sure it's too important). So now even just creating the iterator and not incrementing it at all should still assert because the Error has not been checked. Reviewers: lhames, jakehehrlich Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D55235 llvm-svn: 348811
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