[LLVMdev] JITEventListener for eventual profiling and maybe gdb support

[Jeffrey Yasskin]

Ack, sorry. I should have sent this to llvm-commits instead. :-P
Followups there please.

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Jeffrey Yasskin<jyasskin at google.com> wrote:
> I intend to use this to support oprofile's ability to symbolize JITted
> code through the interface described at
> http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/doc/devel/jit-interface.html. I
> believe the interface will also be useful for gdb support. I'm
> considering adding some flags to the JITEventListener to let the JIT
> avoid collecting information no listener is going to use, but I won't
> do that until there's a need.
>
> I've added EmittedFunctionDetails in this patch so that I don't have
> to change the NotifyFunctionEmitted() interface in a future patch. To
> record line number information, oprofile wants an array of structs of
> the form:
>
>  struct debug_line_info {
>       unsigned long vma;
>       unsigned int lineno;
>       /* The filename format is unspecified, absolute path, relative etc. */
>       char const * filename;
>  };
>
> so I'll add enough information to produce that to the
> EmittedFunctionDetails in a later patch.
>
> Chris mentioned that someone may want to extend this to fire events on
> stub emission too.
>
> Let me know what you think.
> Jeffrey
>
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