[cfe-dev] speed up debugging a static analysis checker?

[George Karpenkov via cfe-dev]

Hi Lou,

I find it easiest to just follow the guide at

https://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html#for-developers-to-work-with-a-git-monorepo <https://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html#for-developers-to-work-with-a-git-monorepo>

specify the projects you need (probably “clang;libcxx;libcxxabi”), set the linker to gold and not customize anything else.
If you do that, do you still hit the slowdown?

George

> On Oct 3, 2018, at 2:25 PM, Lou Wynn <lewisurn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>>> (lldb) b SimpleStreamChecker.cpp:132
>>>>> Breakpoint 1: no locations (pending).
>>>>> WARNING:  Unable to resolve breakpoint to any actual locations.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> This is also weird. If lldb replies with “Unable to resolve breakpoint”, it means that, well, it could not resolve the breakpoint.
>>>> And yet it does stop at a breakpoint (much) later on.
>>> My build uses dynamically linked libraries, and the symbol is not available when the related library isn't loaded.
>> 
>> I think that is your problem.
> Any idea on how to fix it?
>> 
>>> 
>>> When I use the default build which uses statically linked libraries, it becomes much slower, with a huge clang program that is 1.5G without a machine target.
>> 
>> Is 1.5GB a problem though?
>> In my experience “gold” linker on Linux should be performant enough.
>> 
> I'm not sure. But it takes more than 30s to hit the breakpoint with the statically linked library.
> 

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