[LLVMdev] Source file information.

[David Greene]

On Thursday 09 July 2009 12:47, Devang Patel wrote:

> > Ick.  So line number information is only available at debug stop points?
> > That's bad when compiling optimized code since the debug stops kill
> > optimization, don't they?
>
> We worked hard to avoid this. Now if a debug stop point threatens to
> kill optimization then the llvm optimizer will kill the debug stop
> point itself! We have updated optimizer in all cases we could find.
> (Try running nightly tester using TEST=dbgopt and TEST=ipodbgopt and
> report failures.) However this means, in optimized code you may lose
> location info here and there.

Great!  Then this should work for us.

> > We have our own privately-maintained way of tracking line information
> > even in optimized code but it's a big hack and not something suitable for
> > pushing upstream.
>
> Would it be possible to describe the work here ?

To avoid altering every single constructor signature in LLVM, we maintain a 
global variable with the current line number information and have the
constructors look at that when creating instructions during translation
to LLVM.

Yucky.  :-/

> Now, each MI has line number info. The work is in progress to put
> debug info into LLVM instructions. The first step is to move away from
> all those pesky llvm.dbg.* GVs and use metadata.

Perfect.  This should work great for us.  Thanks for the explanation.

                              -Dave