[LLVMdev] Debugging LLVM IR with GDB

[Krzysztof Parzyszek]

On 12/24/2012 6:26 AM, jyoti wrote:
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> Could anyone list up reasons why we need LLVM IR level debugger in place ?
> I could only think of one reason and that is to debug IR portability issues (?)

I wouldn't go as far as saying that we "need" an IR-level debugger, but 
from my perspective it would be something that would help developers who 
use Clang/LLVM to debug their code.  At higher optimization levels in 
particular, source-level debugging may be obscured by various 
optimizations, and assembly-level debugging may be too tedious and cryptic.

-Krzysztof


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