r188739 - Revert "Revert "Revert "Revert "DebugInfo: Omit debug info for dynamic classes in TUs that do not have the vtable for that class""""

[Greg Clayton]

On Dec 17, 2013, at 6:05 PM, Eric Christopher <echristo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> > Let's see if I've managed to divine the use case that you're talking about here so we can attempt to refocus the discussion somewhat:
> >
> > a) You ship headers and libraries to customers.
> > b) You will not or, at least, have not shipped debug info to those customers.
> > c) For this case in particular:
> >    1) The headers contain a polymorphic base class
> >    2) Customers derive from this polymorphic base class
> >    3) Linking still works since the customer has the library but not the debug info for the base class where the key function was emitted.
> >
> > Is this correct?
> 
> yes, this is what is got our kernel group filing bugs.
> 
> So to confirm, you have a situation where you cannot rely on the fact that debug information exists for any object file past the current one so you need a way to turn off any assumption anywhere in debug info generation that something may or will be defined in another unit?

Yes.