SL-20476: Don't let the compiler know we intend to crash.

clang has gotten smart enough to recognize an inline attempt to store to
address zero. Fool it by storing to an address passed as a parameter, and pass
nullptr from a different source file.

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/indra/llcommon/llerror.cpp b/indra/llcommon/llerror.cpp
index 02cb186275..05e719b494 100644
--- a/indra/llcommon/llerror.cpp
+++ b/indra/llcommon/llerror.cpp
@@ -1617,5 +1617,18 @@ bool debugLoggingEnabled(const std::string& tag)
     return res;
 }
 
-
-
+void crashdriver(void (*callback)(int*))
+{
+    // The LLERROR_CRASH macro used to have inline code of the form:
+    //int* make_me_crash = NULL;
+    //*make_me_crash = 0;
+
+    // But compilers are getting smart enough to recognize that, so we must
+    // assign to an address supplied by a separate source file. We could do
+    // the assignment here in crashdriver() -- but then BugSplat would group
+    // all LL_ERRS() crashes as the fault of this one function, instead of
+    // identifying the specific LL_ERRS() source line. So instead, do the
+    // assignment in a lambda in the caller's source. We just provide the
+    // nullptr target.
+    callback(nullptr);
+}