[PATCH]: Add a flag to the DWARF Compile Unit to indicate if it was compiled with ARC

[Bob Wilson]

On May 13, 2013, at 4:32 PM, Adrian Prantl <aprantl at apple.com> wrote:

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>>> I am happy to leave you and Adrian to decide the best representation as long as you agree that this is important to represent *somehow*. I was under the impression that that was in question.
>>> 
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>> Nah, language features are important to represent in dwarf. :)
> 
> I’m happy to search for the best representation in DWARF.
> Going through John’s earlier examples, “weak” vs. “strong” can definitely be represented as an attribute.
> 
> But I think that the last three (especially the “monitor retain/release events”) cases actually do warrant at least a per-function "ARC-enabled" attribute. But since we can only turn on ARC on a per-compilation-unit basis we might as well stick with the cu-wide flag and save some space.
> Let me know if you see an opportunity to break this down into smaller attributes that I missed.

We're actively working on using the per-function attribute to control whether ARC is used.  That is important for LTO.