shafik added inline comments.

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Comment at: lldb/source/Symbol/Type.cpp:378
         m_byte_size_has_value = true;
+        return m_byte_size;
       }
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labath wrote:
> davide wrote:
> > shafik wrote:
> > > Wouldn't it be better to turn `m_byte_size` into an `Optional`? As this 
> > > fix shows this having this additional state we carry around is error 
> > > prone.
> > This is a much larger project, probably worth considering.
> > With that in mind, it wouldn't have prevented this bug from happening, as 
> > this falls through and returns an `Optional<T>` anyway. 
> > Yay fuzz testing (that found this), I would say.
> IIRC, this was done this way to reduce sizeof(Type). Note that the external 
> interface is Optional<uint64_t> and the only place that knows (should know?) 
> about this encoding is this function.
It would have prevented this bug as you just return `m_byte_size` no matter 
what.


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