[PATCH] D42582: [lldb][PPC64] Fixed step-in stopping in the wrong line

[Leandro Lupori via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

luporl added a comment.

That's right, there was a test case that was failing and I wanted to fix it (TestInlineStepping).
The failure was pretty stable. From what I've seen so far, these are the two conditions that, if met, will cause a failure if the local entry point is not handled:

1. The function needs to have external linkage.
2. The function needs to be called locally (from the same module/compilation unit).

Having external linkage means the compiler needs to generate a global entry point for the function to be called from other modules.
Otherwise, it may have only one entry point (it would be technically a local one, but as it would be the only one it would look more like the global one, that skips nothing).
Also, if the function is not used locally, then the compiler may generate only the global entry point, that was already handled correctly by previous code, which also implies that the test must call the function from the same module to end up at the local entry point.


https://reviews.llvm.org/D42582