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I'm hitting a rather difficult problem. I have to compile with RTTI data structures generated because, even though I am not using dynamic_cast or typeid in my application code, I am linking and using a library that does use dynamic_cast. Therefore my code
will crash if I compile with -fno-rtti.</div>
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The problem is, then, that the size of my code is greatly increased, and also (which is more important) critical information is being leached into the resulting application binary by the RTTI type name string that is generated. Unlike normal symbols, these
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Therefore I would like to make a change to the clang compiler to either replace all the type name strings with a single "?" string (this would be best) or doing something like a rot-x encryption on the complete string (I would rather not do this since these
strings are literally hundreds of characters long given that the types are complex template types).</div>
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My suggestion would be that I would attempt to add a -fno-rtti-names parameter. If this is of interest to the general clang community I would be happy to submit a patch for consideration, but at the very least I need something for my own purposes.</div>
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This brings me to my request. I would be very grateful if someone here might be able to direct me into the right place for making such a change.</div>
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Looking at the source code there is a ItaniumRTTIBuilder::BuildTypeInfo(...) function in CodeGen/ItaniumCXXABI.cpp (see
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https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/fe177a1773e4f88dde1aa37d34a0d3f8cb582f14/clang/lib/CodeGen/ItaniumCXXABI.cpp#L3730</a>). In there, the first thing it does is lay down a field for the mangled type name. My guess is that it should be possible to substitute
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llvm::GlobalVariable *TypeName = GetAddrOfTypeName(Ty, Linkage);</div>
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with something that generates a static string "?" and returns the address of that. Then it will build the table pointing at this string, I am guessing.</div>
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Is this a feasible approach or will this break loads of things elsewhere in the compiler and/or c++ runtime? I am not interested in a run-time ability to get the mangled (or otherwise) name of the class, so if replacing this string has no effect on, for example,
the correction function of dynamic_cast or typeid and only means that std::type_info::name returns a bogus value, then I'm happy with that.</div>
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Many thanks for any and all suggestions regarding this.</div>
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Cheers,</div>
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Andy</div>
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