clayborg added a comment.

In D96817#2569595 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D96817#2569595>, @dblaikie wrote:

>> CRTP was my first implementation, however, I discarded it as more bug-prone. 
>> Virtual Clone function at the interface is so common that, I believe, 
>> everyone knows it must be overridden by a new derived class. The necessity 
>> of inheriting from base_clone_helper is not so obvious.
>
> I would've thought it'd be pretty easy to accidentally miss either of these - 
> I think the CRTP helper ensures consistency of implementation (harder to 
> accidentally slice/copy the wrong type/etc. But I'm not a code owner/major 
> contributor to lldb specifically, so probably more up to other developers who 
> are.

Whatever is the safest and most llvm like is probably the best approach IMHO. 
So maybe stick with a solution that will be familiar to LLVM developers if this 
current approach isn't. I am open to other suggestions if others feel strongly 
otherwise.


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