[LLVMdev] Debug information and bitcode linking patch

[Richard Pennington]

Richard Pennington wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The enclosed patch preserves debug information about compilation units, 
> functions, and line number information when doing bitcode linking. I'm 
> not easily able to try this for non-bitcode linking. Could someone 
> familiar with debug info take a look and tell me if it appears to be 
> benign?
> 
> The rational is that formerly the compile units and subprogram 
> definitions were made into a single occurrence after linking, which 
> really messed up the debug info. This patch keeps them separate, as they 
> should be.
> 
> This is a fix for http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=4530
> 
> -Rich
> 

Oops. the patch.


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