[LLVMdev] Reporting errors in inline assembly

[Devang Patel]

On Jul 1, 2011, at 4:08 PM, Jakob Stoklund Olesen wrote:

> I want to report a problem with an inline assembly instruction from a code generator pass?
> 
> How can I do that with the proper diagnostic format and source location?
> 
> Right now we only get:
> 
> clang -c /d/g/clang-tests/gcc-4_2-testsuite/src/gcc.target/i386/pr30848.c
> fatal error: error in backend: Inline asm output regs must be last on the x87 stack
> 
> But gcc-4-2 can:
> 
> $ gcc-4.2 -c /d/g/clang-tests/gcc-4_2-testsuite/src/gcc.target/i386/pr30848.c
> /d/g/clang-tests/gcc-4_2-testsuite/src/gcc.target/i386/pr30848.c: In function ‘foo’:
> /d/g/clang-tests/gcc-4_2-testsuite/src/gcc.target/i386/pr30848.c:5: error: output regs must be grouped at top of stack
> 
> Didn't we add support for source locations for the integrated assembler?


First of all, you need to capture location info  in InlineAsm because debug info is not always available.
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Devang