<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 8:20 PM Daniel Berlin via llvm-dev <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 3:58 PM, Roman Popov via llvm-dev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org" target="_blank">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>As you may know modern C++ debuggers (GDB and LLDB) support dynamic type identification for polymorphic objects, by utilizing C++ RTTI. </div><div>Unfortunately this feature does not work with Clang and GDB >= 7.x . The last compiler that worked well was G++ 6.x</div><div><br></div><div>I've asked about this issue both on GDB and LLDB maillists. Unfortunately it's hard or impossible to fix it on debugger side.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Errr, i posited a solution on the gdb mailing list that i haven't seen shot down so far, that doesn't require linkage names, it only requires one new attribute that is a DW_FORM_ref, and very cheap.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>FWIW, for C++ at least, neither Clang nor GCC (6.3) produce any DWARF to describe the vtable itself (they describe the vtable pointer inside the struct, but not the constant vtable array) - so it'll be a bit more than one attribute, but the bytes describe the vtable (as a global variable? Do we give it a name? (if so, we're back to paying that cost)) first, then to add the reference from that to the type.<br><br>& I'm not sure what Apple would do or anyone else that has libraries without debug info shipped & users have to debug them (this is what broke -fno-standalone-debug for Apple - their driver API which ships without debug info of its own, has strong vtables in it).<br><br>I can go into more detail there - but there are certainly some annoying edge cases/questions I have here :/<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div><div>I also wrote the RTTI code for GDB :)<br><br></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Currently what debugger has to do is to demangle RTTI name and try to match it to DW_AT_name attribute to find type. As you can see it does not work for any of 3 examples.</div><div><br></div><div>I've asked about the problem on G++ maillist, and one of the proposed solutions is to emit DW_AT_linkage_name for types. </div><div><br></div><div>Can this solution be also implemented in LLVM? </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Please, no.</div><div><br></div><div>This is completely unneeded and wastes a huge amount of space.</div><div><br></div><div>As you can see from the replies to my solution on the gdb mailing list, it is used by other languages (rust, for example) *anyway*, so we might as well use it for C++ too.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
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