[LLVMdev] MS assembler support

[Anton Korobeynikov]

Hello, Benedict

>As far as I can tell it seems that the LLVM x86 backend targets GNU
>assembler with DWARF for debug and there is not a way, currently, to
>output for MS assembler with COFF debug info. Is this correct or am I
>just looking at the wrong part?
Multiple issues here, actually.

First of all, there is "X86IntelAsmPrinter", which outputs MASM-compatible assembler. You 
can select assembler flavour via command line, for example. However, MASM is really weak to 
support all necessary features for compilation of something huge and complex (MS tools do 
not emit assembler directly, their assembler listings are pure listings, they cannot be used 
for recompilaiton. This is especially true if you generate them from some C++ code), so only 
small and easy things will work.

This is not limitation of LLVM itself, but limitation of vendor-provided tools.

As for COFF debugging format- are you referring to 'plain' COFF debugging format or to 
proprietary CV format used by Microsoft? 
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WBR, Anton Korobeynikov