[LLVMdev] Optimizations and debug info

[Devang Patel]

On Nov 3, 2008, at 8:00 AM, Chris Lattner wrote:

> Yes, you need it for correct output, but in practice, we can't provide
> that at high optimization levels.  At least we can't do that if we
> preserve the guarantee that turning on debug info should not affect
> the generated executable code.

What we could do is inform the client about the 'damage' done by the  
optimizer. If the optimization pass can not preserve debug info. then  
it can at least replace llvm.dbg.stoppoint with  
llvm.dbg.optimized_away_stoppoint. Now the clients can handle it in  
user friendly way appropriately.  "Hey, you can not set a break point  
here because the optimizer optimized away this expression/statement."

I am just thinking out loud here...
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Devang