[LLVMdev] Newbie Question: not using local variables

[Devang Patel]

On Feb 7, 2011, at 10:05 PM, Ben Karel wrote:

> Also, IIRC debug metadata must be attached to stack slots.

FWIW this is was true in past but not strictly true anymore, though it is a road less travelled at -O0. One would normally use @llvm.dbg.declare intrinsic to map variable info with the stack slots. Now, you can use @llvm.dbg.value intrinsic to map variable info with a llvm register.

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Devang