[LLVMdev] LLVM DebugInfoBuilder

[Talin]

Sure. My own compiler doesn't even use it at the moment (I had to rewrite
the code generator, and the new version doesn't yet support debug info.)

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> wrote:

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> On Jan 7, 2009, at 1:48 PM, Talin wrote:
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> Fine by me :)
>
>
> Is it ok to remove DebugInfoBuilder now?  I don't think that anything in
> the tree is using it, what do you think Talin?
>
> -Chris
>
>
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> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> wrote:
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>>
>> On Jan 7, 2009, at 3:22 AM, Patrick Boettcher wrote:
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>> > Hi list,
>> > hi Talin,
>> >
>> > I'm working on a frontend to generate IR using the IRBuilder from
>> > LLVM.
>> >
>> > Now I want to add source-level-debuginfo and for that I would like
>> > to use the
>> > DebugInfoBuilder as it is taking some of the burderns. Unfortunately
>> > it does
>> > not take all of them, yet.
>>
>> Instead of DebugInfoBuilder, I'd strongly recommend taking a look at
>> include/llvm/Analysis/DebugInfo.h.  This is the interface that llvm-
>> gcc and clang both use to produce debug info.  If it's ok with Talin,
>> I'd like to eventually remove DebugInfoBuilder.  Analysis/DebugInfo.h
>> provides a nice and efficient API for both creating and reading debug
>> info, and abstracts the clients from the actual form (e.g. serialized
>> into GlobalVariables) that the debug info takes.
>>
>> -Chris
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