[LLVMdev] Proposal: type uniquing of debug info for LTO

[Renato Golin]

On 21 June 2013 18:35, David Blaikie <dblaikie at gmail.com> wrote:

> using the actual language mangling's probably a good idea
>

Yup, sounds good.


That's the invariant, yes. Named metadata are the roots of the
> glorious metadata tree from which the debug info fruit grows. Or
> something.
>

So, that fits well today, since (from another thread) we generate debug
info when really needed, so types should not need to be trimmed.

If we ever generate types that later become unnecessary, we could bloat the
dwarf table, no?

cheers,
--renato
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