[LLVMdev] Associating types directly with debug metadata?

[Chris Lattner]

On Sep 29, 2010, at 10:05 AM, Devang Patel wrote:

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> On Sep 29, 2010, at 4:30 AM, Pekka Nikander wrote:
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>> We would need to access the LLVM debug metadata type information directly from LLVM types.  It looks like the current clang and llvm-gcc don't support such an association, nor appears the LLVM itself do.
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> True. I am curious how do you want to use this association ? 

Be aware that types are uniqued and that the IR name is completely meaningless.

-Chris