[LLVMdev] DWARF unmangled subprog name (DW_AT_name)

[Alexey Samsonov]

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Keno Fischer
<kfischer at college.harvard.edu>wrote:

> The use case for this is in Julia backtraces. We don't have a consistent
> way to mangle the function names for linkage (we might at some point in the
> future, but this is out of scope for now). Instead, we save whatever we
> want displayed in AT_name, but there's no way to access that with the
> public API (it works nicely in gdb/lldb though).
>

Alright, I see why it makes sense. We can pass this information through
DILineInfoSpecifier. In fact, probably it makes sense to change the layout
of this structure:
there would be 3 types of file/line info (None, Regular, AbsoluteFilePath).
(though, probably we may make latter the default) and 3 types of function
name info (None, Name, LinkageName).


>
>
> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Alexey Samsonov <samsonov at google.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Eric Christopher <echristo at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Have you checked out llvm-symbolize? It's what the asan folk
>>> (including Alexey) have created for backtrace symbolication.
>>>
>>
>> Yeah, we potentially can add some kind of option: "llvm-symbolizer
>> -print-short-function-names", I don't yet see why this would be valuable.
>> What's wrong with printing full function names?
>>
>>
>>>
>>> -eric
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Isaiah Norton <isaiah.norton at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > The use case is getting the short name for backtraces. There are other
>>> > options, but I figured it was worth a shot trying to access from the
>>> DWARF
>>> > structure because what we need is already stored there anyway.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks,
>>> > Isaiah
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Alexey Samsonov <samsonov at google.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Yeah, public API of DebugInfo library is quite minimalistic. But I
>>> agree
>>> >> with Eric - what is the use case for getting unmangled name from DIE?
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 11:21 PM, Keno Fischer
>>> >> <kfischer at college.harvard.edu> wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> That doesn't seem possible with the public API or am I mistaking?
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Eric Christopher <
>>> echristo at gmail.com>
>>> >>> wrote:
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 8:09 PM, Isaiah Norton <
>>> isaiah.norton at gmail.com>
>>> >>>> wrote:
>>> >>>> > Hi,
>>> >>>> >
>>> >>>> > I am looking for a way to get unmangled subprogram names from a
>>> >>>> > DWARFContext. The name I want is available in the attribute
>>> >>>> > `DW_AT_name`
>>> >>>> > [1], but as far as I can tell this is only returned as a fallback
>>> in
>>> >>>> > `DWARFDebugInfoEntryMinimal::getSubroutineName` when the linkage
>>> name
>>> >>>> > is not
>>> >>>> > available [2].
>>> >>>> >
>>> >>>> > If this is not currently possible, is there any interest in adding
>>> >>>> > such
>>> >>>> > access to the public DebugInfo API? Perhaps with an additional
>>> >>>> > "UnmangledName" option in `DILineInfoSpecifier`.
>>> >>>> >
>>> >>>> > Thanks,
>>> >>>> > Isaiah
>>> >>>> >
>>> >>>> > [1]: for example:
>>> >>>> >
>>> >>>> > 0x0001bb00:   DW_TAG_subprogram [2]
>>> >>>> >                 DW_AT_MIPS_linkage_name [DW_FORM_strp]  (
>>> >>>> > .debug_str[0x00007934] = "julia_vcat4473")
>>> >>>> >                 DW_AT_name [DW_FORM_strp]       (
>>> >>>> > .debug_str[0x00000913] =
>>> >>>> > "vcat")
>>> >>>> >
>>> >>>> >
>>> >>>> > [2]
>>> >>>> >
>>> >>>> >
>>> https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/blob/master/lib/DebugInfo/DWARFDebugInfoEntry.cpp#L279-L286
>>> >>>> >
>>> >>>> >
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> If you just want the DW_AT_name you should be able to iterate over
>>> the
>>> >>>> DIEs and pull out the DW_AT_name attribute from all of the
>>> subprogram
>>> >>>> DIEs. Is there some other use that you're looking for? I'm not quite
>>> >>>> sure what you're trying to accomplish.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> -eric
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