Want to say I agree with Greg on this one, but did want to answer one question you had.
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Matthew Gardiner <m...@csr.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2014-10-07 at 17:10 -0700, Greg Clayton wrote: > > It is quite common for shared libraries to have initialize and terminate > calls. We have this in LLDB. > > Agreed. Lots of libraries have to initialise resource, then release the > resource upon terminate. > > But why have an Initialise method when you _already_ have a Create > method? Likewise a Terminate method when you _already_ have a Destroy > method. > > Surely when a "thing" is created that is also when it is initialised? Initialize() initializes global state that is a pre-requisite for using *any* SBDebugger instance. Create() creates a single instance of an SBDebugger, assuming that the global state has already been initialized. You can have multiple SBDebuggers, but you can only Initialize() once.
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