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In D155809#4550682 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D155809#4550682>, @aaron.ballman 
wrote:

> In D155809#4550674 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D155809#4550674>, @danlark wrote:
>
>> In D155809#4550663 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D155809#4550663>, 
>> @aaron.ballman wrote:
>>
>>> In D155809#4550654 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D155809#4550654>, @danlark 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> In D155809#4550646 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D155809#4550646>, 
>>>> @aaron.ballman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> In D155809#4527890 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D155809#4527890>, @danlark 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> In D155809#4527847 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D155809#4527847>, 
>>>>>> @aaron.ballman wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In D155809#4527199 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D155809#4527199>, @danlark 
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> In D155809#4521494 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D155809#4521494>, @rsmith 
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> This looks correct to me, but it's still a little subtle. Perhaps 
>>>>>>>>> it'd be clearer to map the method to an integer (0 for copy 
>>>>>>>>> assignment, 1 for move assignment, 2 for destructor, 3 for equality 
>>>>>>>>> comparison), and then order them by that integer? That'd be more 
>>>>>>>>> obviously a strict weak order.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> In D155809#4520765 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D155809#4520765>, @shafik 
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I am not sure about this change but I think we at least need a test 
>>>>>>>>> and this does not seem non-functional if it prevents a crash.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> This is NFC as it only prevents further assert to fire when 
>>>>>>>> stable_sort compares the element with itself
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Richard's suggestion makes sense to me as a clarifying change to the 
>>>>>>> code. I also agree with Shafik -- if this prevents an assertion from 
>>>>>>> firing in practice, then it's a functional change that should come with 
>>>>>>> tests. Or are you saying the assertion isn't happening in practice and 
>>>>>>> this is a defensive change?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The assertion happens in debug libcxx mode after 
>>>>>> https://reviews.llvm.org/D150264.  This is a defensive change, in 
>>>>>> practice, 2 same functions cannot happen in this comparator, this is 
>>>>>> only for preventing assertions on line 1568 
>>>>>> <https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/2773098ee3187d5f9daca8938d57657dd89dd36f/clang/lib/AST/VTableBuilder.cpp#L1569>
>>>>>
>>>>> I apologize, but I'm still confused. If this assertion triggers in 
>>>>> practice in debug modes with libc++, we should be able to make a 
>>>>> stand-alone reproducer that we test as part of these changes within Clang.
>>>>
>>>> This assertion triggers in debug mode for various tests but clang is not 
>>>> tested against libc++ debug mode for now. In non debug mode the assertion 
>>>> is impossible to reach because in practice comp(a, a) is not called for 
>>>> all implementations of sorting in all major standard libraries
>>>
>>> Okay, I think you should take the existing tests that trigger the assertion 
>>> and reduce the code down to just what's needed to trigger the assertion, 
>>> then add that code as a test case to Clang so that we can demonstrate the 
>>> assert happens before your patch and doesn't happen after your patch. We've 
>>> got a special lit mode (`// REQUIRES: asserts` as a comment near the `RUN` 
>>> line) to enable the test only in asserts builds so you don't have to worry 
>>> about assertions disabled changing the test behavior.
>>
>> libc++ debug mode is different from assertions in LLVM main library (first 
>> is controlled with -D_LIBCPP_ENABLE_DEBUG_MODE, second is with -UNDEBUG). I 
>> claim that now I cannot write the test which fails in any existing CI 
>> configuration. And I cannot add a new version of CI because of failing 
>> tests. That's why I defensively clean up comparators to enable CI in more 
>> modes. I made the change as easy as possible to prove that it does not harm 
>> the sorting overall.
>
> If it fails in any libc++ CI pipeline, you should be able to craft the same 
> code to fail within Clang's test suite. The changes in the patch all look 
> correct to me; the problem is that the patch claims to be NFC when it's not. 
> It is making a functional change (it fixes assertions you were able to hit) 
> and it has no test coverage for that.

@ldionne is it possible to run clang test suite in the libc++ debug mode? I 
looked through the CI and my opinion it's an exclusively libc++ feature 
<https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/e3821e47da66eb10abb10d5b68cce5fcb167201b/libcxx/utils/libcxx/test/params.py#L297>


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