[LLVMdev] Possibility of Corruption of debug metadata

[shankha]

Hi Devang,
I convert all global variables in a file to thread local at the IR level.
i.e. compile example_llvm.c  to IR example_llvm.ll and change global
variables to thread-local variables. I also insert a function call just before
access of the global(now thread-local) variable. I also insert a local variable
in main. Does these operations in any way effect the debug metadata ?

I do not face any issues debugging my test case. But while debugging
my application
through gdb I cannot make sense of the call stack. I do not see the
function names in
the call stack (with or without insertion of additional function calls
or local variables).

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Devang Patel <dpatel at apple.com> wrote:
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> On Oct 12, 2010, at 4:28 PM, shankha <shankhabanerjee at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>> If I convert global variables to thread-local variables or vice versa
>> at the IR stage do I have to take care of the debug metadata.
>
> If you provide an small concrete example then it would help,
>
> Devang
>> I looked at the IR generated and I couldn't find any difference
>> between the debug metadata generated for global variables and
>> thread-local variables.
>>
>> --
>> Thanks
>> Shankha
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-- 
Thanks
Shankha Banerjee
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