[LLVMdev] .debug_info section size in arm executable

[Jim Grosbach]

On Nov 9, 2011, at 10:43 AM, Eric Christopher wrote:

> 
> On Nov 9, 2011, at 10:35 AM, Chris Lattner wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Nov 9, 2011, at 2:58 AM, Nick Lewycky wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> For one example, for enums clang will emit the names for all of the enum 
>>> cases. GCC only emits the ones that are used.
>> 
>> Is this a clang bug, or a feature?
> 
> IMO this is probably a feature. Thinking about it like this:
> 
> int foo(enum Bar x) {
> 	switch(x)
>           ...
> }
> 
> int baz (int a)
> {
>    foo(a);
> }
> 
> It's not good, but people do it. Also constructing enums via & and | etc. It'd be nice to be able to get the name of whatever it is that the code generator actually produced :)
> 

Agreed. LLVM itself does this sort of thing pretty frequently, actually, and having the enum names and values available in the debugger is very nice.

-Jim