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    Hello all,     I develop a project based on Clang where I need to read all symbols from a library. For symbols libraries (.a/.lib) I use the following code:     auto &FM = C->getFileManager();     ...     auto Buffer = FM.getBufferForFile(FileEntry);     ...     auto Object = llvm::object::ObjectFile::createObjectFile(Buffer);     This code crashes at the last line if the file in question is a shared object (.so). Apparently I need to use different code to parse a shared object but I have little idea what. Any help will be apprecia...

I'm not advocating AAA. However this is a proposal for more modern thinking regarding the permissiveness of auto in LLVM codebases. Currently the rule on the use of auto is here: https://llvm.org/docs/CodingStandards.html#use-auto-type-deduction-to-make-code-more-readable It is quite strict. It allows the use of auto for * lambdas * iterators because they are long to type * casts to