[llvm-commits] [llvm] r100072 - in /llvm/trunk: include/llvm/Support/DebugLoc.h lib/VMCore/DebugLoc.cpp lib/VMCore/LLVMContextImpl.h

[nicolas geoffray]

Oh, and I should also add that this broke at least one client of LLVM and
debug information: VMKit ;)

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:28 PM, nicolas geoffray <
nicolas.geoffray at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:48 AM, Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> wrote:
>>
>>  > Machine-generated code often goes over 255 columns.   Are you sure you
>> want to design this limitation in?
>>
>> Yep.  Only clang generates column numbers, and I don't know of any
>> debuggers that do anything with them.  We can always change this in the
>> future.
>>
>>
>
> Actually, I was using these values (column, line number) to store some
> runtime informations on an instruction (line number in a Java source file,
> Java bytecode number, etc). While I know that the interface is somehow not
> fully defined yet for debug location, having the possibility to get a number
> of high-level information on a machine instruction through this debugging
> utility was really useful.
>
> Nicolas
>
>
>
>> -Chris
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