aprantl added inline comments.

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Comment at: lldb/source/Target/Target.cpp:208
+    // of the debugee.
+    m_scratch_type_system_map.Clear();
     m_process_sp.reset();
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Michael137 wrote:
> Michael137 wrote:
> > kastiglione wrote:
> > > Do we have some place in the life-cycle where we can perform this only if 
> > > the target has changed? Ideally this would happen when the binary has a 
> > > different timestamp, or for mach-o a different UUID.
> > There is `DidUnloadModules` which gets notified when an 
> > lldb_private::Module gets unloaded (e.g., on rebuilt). But this includes 
> > JITted modules (e.g., when running AppleObjectiveCRuntimeV2 utility 
> > functions) in which case we wouldn’t want to flush the type systems. Also 
> > the Clang REPL (and I assume the Swift REPL) rely on the type system being 
> > still present after we unloaded the module associated with the evaluated 
> > expression. All this is to say, I found it to be quite fiddly to determine 
> > when to flush the persistent variables from within that notification. 
> > Really we would like a notification to the Target which says “we restarted 
> > the debugee AND some module got rebuilt”. In that case it’s not safe to 
> > keep the persistent variables around. I’ll double check if there isn’t 
> > something like that around.
> I suppose we could do something like:
> 
> ```
> void Target::ModulesDidUnload(ModuleList &module_list, bool delete_locations) 
> {
>     ...
>     if each module in module_list is Type::eTypeExecutable or 
> Type::eTypeObjectFile {
>         m_scratch_type_system_map.Clear();
>     }
> ```
That looks like a reasonable middle ground?


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