[LLVMdev] introspecting debug info from the JIT

[Michael Muller]

Reid Kleckner wrote:
> Unfortunately, LLVM doesn't really know how to generate debug info for
> JITed code yet.  All it can tell you or a debugger is the symbol and
> the unwind information for unwinding exceptions through JITed code.

Ok, that's fair enough.  By 'symbol' I'm assuming you mean the function name.
Is there a good way for me to obtain that given an IP address?

> 
> Hopefully the MC JIT will make that problem go away.
> 
> Reid
> 
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Michael Muller <mmuller at enduden.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Can someone point me to a good way to get debug info from jitted code at
> > runtime?  Ideally I'm looking for something that given the current IP address,
> > provides function name, filename and line number.
> >
> > The context of this request is that I'm trying to inject a stack-trace into an
> > exception object.
> >
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