aprantl added a comment.

In D146154#4198730 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D146154#4198730>, @sgraenitz wrote:

> In D146154#4197454 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D146154#4197454>, @aprantl wrote:
>
>> One thing I just realized — we need to make sure that we don't accidentally 
>> create a GNUstep ObjC runtime in a Swift process that was built without ObjC 
>> support on Linux.
>
> Yes, thanks for bringing this up. The goal definitely is to avoid any 
> accidental conflicts with existing use cases that don't need or expect a 
> GNUstep runtime. I really want to get my focus to the Windows side and PDB 
> parsing. It's useful to have Linux working as well, so that we have a 
> testable feature set to match. Otherwise, we don't want to invest a lot of 
> effort here yet.
>
>> How can we ensure this works for both cases?
>
> Shouldn't the Swift processes report `eLanguageTypeSwift`? Then 
> `GNUstepObjCRuntime::CreateInstance()` rejects it reliably.

I'm not sure where eLanguageType being passed in here comes from. Generally for 
Swift processes with (Apple) Objective-C interoperability enabled, it is the 
expected case to have both a Swift and an Objective-C runtime in the same 
process.

>> I.e., can you detect based on the presence of a symbol or shared object that 
>> an GNUstep runtime is present?
>
> Are there existing cases that follow such an approach? Looking at the order 
> of events here, it appears that we have to wait for `ModulesDidLoad()` to 
> report the shared library before we can inspect its symbols. How would we 
> proceed if we want to create the language runtime first? I.e. here 
> https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/release/16.x/lldb/source/Target/Process.cpp#L5727-L5732
>
> The shared library has a GNUstep-specific EH personality for example, would 
> that do?
>
>   > llvm-nm libobjc2/build/libobjc.so | grep gnustep_objc
>   00000000000264c0 T __gnustep_objc_personality_v0
>   0000000000026500 T __gnustep_objcxx_personality_v0

I think that would be a great way to guard against false positives!


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