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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Perhaps I interpreted your original question too narrowly and read “mspdb format” as “structure of the PDB”. The format for the backend-produced debug data is
CodeView, not PDB. We don’t think of the PDB as a debug format. It is a container – a database of program information (hence the name Program DataBase).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">For the AOT our intention is to emit native debug format, so CodeView on Windows and Dwarf on Linux, etc. Thus on Windows we will likely extend LLVM to emit the
relevant bits of CodeView into COFF object files. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The LLILC project won’t have much to say about the PDB.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">More details forthcoming as we work through our plans.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Vadim Chugunov [mailto:vadimcn@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 16, 2015 3:01 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Andy Ayers<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Russell Hadley; llvmdev@cs.uiuc.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [LLVMdev] MS fork<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">But even if you use link.exe for linking, you'd still need to emit debug info into object files first, at least in the AOT case. Unless, of course, you are not planning to use LLVM backend on Windows at all.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Andy Ayers <<a href="mailto:andya@microsoft.com" target="_blank">andya@microsoft.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The LLILC project does not require direct interaction with the PDB, so it’s not part of our plans.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The JIT uses a special reporting format to communicate debug info (frame info and machine->IL mappings)
back to the CoreCLR EE. The debugger joins this with the frontend-produced debug information (IL->source and logical frame offset->local, which is in a PDB) to complete the picture.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Something similar will likely happen in the AOT case, where the “code generator” just produces a subset
of the data, and some other entity (the linker, say) incorporates that into the PDB.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
<a href="mailto:llvmdev-bounces@cs.uiuc.edu" target="_blank">llvmdev-bounces@cs.uiuc.edu</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:llvmdev-bounces@cs.uiuc.edu" target="_blank">llvmdev-bounces@cs.uiuc.edu</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Vadim Chugunov<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 15, 2015 11:49 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Russell Hadley<br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:llvmdev@cs.uiuc.edu" target="_blank">llvmdev@cs.uiuc.edu</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [LLVMdev] MS fork<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Just curious, are you planning to add support for debug info emission in mspdb format?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 7:01 AM, Russell Hadley <<a href="mailto:rhadley@microsoft.com" target="_blank">rhadley@microsoft.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Chandler has it right. Our intent is to upstream everything. The MS fork will be used as a staging area for LLVM changes as we work to get them upstreamed. Tactically
we're merging the MS fork everyday with mainline to try and stay close. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">We're still ramping up right now, and trying to figure out how best to work day to day, but our over arching goal is to enable (mainline) LLVM to be a great code generator
for C#.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">-R</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">
<a href="mailto:llvmdev-bounces@cs.uiuc.edu" target="_blank">llvmdev-bounces@cs.uiuc.edu</a> <<a href="mailto:llvmdev-bounces@cs.uiuc.edu" target="_blank">llvmdev-bounces@cs.uiuc.edu</a>> on behalf of Chandler Carruth <<a href="mailto:chandlerc@google.com" target="_blank">chandlerc@google.com</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 15, 2015 3:14 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> C Bergström; <a href="mailto:llvmdev@cs.uiuc.edu" target="_blank">llvmdev@cs.uiuc.edu</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [LLVMdev] MS fork</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">They presented on LLILC at EuroLLVM, and indicated they were just starting up but were definitely planning to contribute everything back to upstream. Personally, I'm pretty happy to see them talking
actively to the community, participating effectively in EuroLLVM and some of the stuff they talked about there was really exciting.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 10:16 PM C Bergström <<a href="mailto:cbergstrom@pathscale.com" target="_blank">cbergstrom@pathscale.com</a>> wrote:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Dear MS,<br>
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Will you be cleaning up and encouraging people to get the work on<br>
github upstream?<br>
<a href="https://github.com/Microsoft/llvm/commits/MS" target="_blank">https://github.com/Microsoft/llvm/commits/MS</a><br>
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Thanks<br>
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