[RFC][PATCH] Keep un-canonicalized template types in the debug information

[Adrian Prantl]

> On Sep 5, 2014, at 3:49 PM, Eric Christopher <echristo at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Duncan P. N. Exon Smith <dexonsmith at apple.com <mailto:dexonsmith at apple.com>> wrote:
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> > On 2014 Sep 5, at 16:01, Frédéric Riss <friss at apple.com <mailto:friss at apple.com>> wrote:
> >
> > I couldn’t even find a subject expressing exactly what this patch is about… First of all, it’s meant to start a discussion, and I’m not proposing it for inclusion right now.
> >
> > The issue I’m trying to address is that template types are always canonicalized when emitted in the debug information (this is the desugar() call in UnwrapTypeForDebugInformation).
> >
> > This means that if the developer writes:
> >
> > typedef int A;
> > template <typename T>
> > struct S {};
> >
> > S<A> var;
> >
> > The variable var will have type S<int> and not S<A>. In this simple example, it’s not that much of an issue, but for heavily templated code, the full expansion might be really different from the original declaration.
> >
> > The attached patch makes us emit an intermediate typedef for the variable’s type:
> >
> > 0x0000002a:   DW_TAG_variable [2]
> >                DW_AT_name [DW_FORM_strp]       ( .debug_str[0x00000032] = “var")
> >                DW_AT_type [DW_FORM_ref4]       (cu + 0x0040 => {0x00000040})
> >                DW_AT_external [DW_FORM_flag]   (0x01)
> >                DW_AT_decl_file [DW_FORM_data1] (0x01)
> >                DW_AT_decl_line [DW_FORM_data1] (8)
> >                DW_AT_location [DW_FORM_block1] (<0x09> 03 70 6c 00 00 00 00 00 00 )
> >
> > 0x00000040:   DW_TAG_typedef [3]
> >                DW_AT_type [DW_FORM_ref4]       (cu + 0x004b => {0x0000004b})
> >                DW_AT_name [DW_FORM_strp]       ( .debug_str[0x00000035] = “S<A>")
> >                DW_AT_decl_file [DW_FORM_data1] (0x01)
> >                DW_AT_decl_line [DW_FORM_data1] (6)
> >
> > 0x0000004b:   DW_TAG_structure_type [4] *
> >                DW_AT_name [DW_FORM_strp]       ( .debug_str[0x0000003e] = “S<int>")
> >                DW_AT_byte_size [DW_FORM_data1] (0x01)
> >                DW_AT_decl_file [DW_FORM_data1] (0x01)
> >                DW_AT_decl_line [DW_FORM_data1] (6)
> >
> >
> > Which basically is what I want, although I don’t like that it introduces a typedef where there is none in the code. I’d prefer that to be:
> >
> > DW_TAG_variable
> >  DW_AT_type: -> DW_TAG_structure_type
> >                   DW_AT_name: S<A>
> >                   DW_AT_specification: -> DW_TAG_structure_type
> >                                             DW_AT_name: S<int>
> >                                             …
> >
> > The patch also has the nice property of omitting the defaulted template arguments in the first level typedef. For example you get vector<A> instead of vector<int, std::__1::allocator<int> >.
> 
> If you specify `vector<int>` in C++ do you get that instead of
> `vector<int, std::__1::allocator<int>>`?
> 
> Yeah, I mentioned this as possibly causing problems with debuggers or other consumers, but I don't have any proof past "ooooo scary!”.

Well, [+lldb-dev], could this confuse debuggers? :-)

-- adrian
> 
> That said, I like the idea personally :)
> 
> -eric
>  
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> > Now there is one thing I really don’t like about the patch. In order not to emit typedefs for types that don’t need it, I use string comparison between the desugared and the original type. I haven’t quantified anything, but doing the construction of the type name for every template type and then comparing it to decide to use it or not seems like a big waste.
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> Maybe someone on cfe-dev knows a better way.
> 
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > <template-arg-typedefs.diff>
> >
> > Fred
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