Generic question about llc asserts

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In my experience assertions are a development tool and should not be a part of the user’s experience.

With that in mind, do we expect the end user to ever invoke llc directly?

The reason I ask is that I directly gave llc some bogus command line input and it asserted.

Is it a bug that a graceful error message and exit from llc wasn’t performed or is it considered “fair game” to generate an assertion because I didn’t go through the larger tool chain?

Jack

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Generally, it's a bug; if there's some construct we can't generate
code for, we should be using report_fatal_error.

Granted, bugs like that have much lower priority than bugs which can
be triggered from realistic code.

-Eli

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Thanks