[Lldb-commits] [PATCH] D113163: [LLDB][Breakpad] Create a function for each compilation unit.

[Zequan Wu via Phabricator via lldb-commits]

zequanwu added inline comments.


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Comment at: lldb/source/Plugins/SymbolFile/Breakpad/SymbolFileBreakpad.cpp:388-392
   for (llvm::StringRef line : lines(Record::Func)) {
     if (auto record = FuncRecord::parse(line))
       add_symbol(record->Address, record->Size, record->Name);
   }
 
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labath wrote:
> zequanwu wrote:
> > labath wrote:
> > > Can you check if we can remove this now?
> > > 
> > > I originally thought that we can remove this entire function, but I forgot about PUBLIC records -- we don't have functions or compile units for those, so they will have to stay.
> > Removing it causes FUNC records not showing up in symtab when doing `image dump symtab ...` and fails some tests.
> > The Breakpad doc says (https://chromium.googlesource.com/breakpad/breakpad/+/HEAD/docs/symbol_files.md#records-4):
> > 
> > > If a given address is covered by both a PUBLIC record and a FUNC record, the processor uses the FUNC data.
> > 
> It's expected that the tests verifying symtab contents need updating after you remove some things from it. It's also possible some other tests will need minor tweaks (like the one in `line-table.test:54`) because of small differences in output format.
> 
> Whether this is a reasonable change cannot be judged by failing tests alone. You also need to evaluate the overall quality of the debugger output. That will have to be a judgement call, but I'm hoping it won't be a hard one. For example, the change in line-table.test was definitely for the better.
> 
> >> If a given address is covered by both a PUBLIC record and a FUNC record, the processor uses the FUNC data.
> 
> And if an address is covered both by a Symtab Symbol, and an SymbolFile Function, lldb will preferentially (in backtraces, for instance) display information from the Function, so I think (hope) that this is going to work exactly as desired.
These two commands `image lookup -n ...` and `image show-unwind -n ..` also failed to give any information if the name is from FUNC records.


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