Compilation: check if there is anything in the clang error bundle #20031
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As far as I can tell, clang emits empty diagnostics for hand-crafted assembly files, however the diagnostics bundle is still well-formed, it just does not contain any block beyond META comprising VERSION record. This is most unfortunate as any errors in assembly source files will not be caught and lead to panics down the line. The solution seems to be to check for the number of parsed diagnostics before returning back to the frontend. I based this on the existence of a similar C exposed function in libclang.
For more context, here's what we see for some malformed C source file in terms of serialized diagnostics:
And here's what we see for malformed ASM source file:
EDIT: forgot to add that without any check like the above, when compiling malformed ASM source, we are greeted with a rather unhelpful panic:
when there is an actual error printed by clang frontend: