[LLVMdev] First-class debug info IR: MDLocation

[Duncan P. N. Exon Smith]

> On 2014-Oct-27, at 11:20, Adrian Prantl <aprantl at apple.com> wrote:
> 
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>> On Oct 27, 2014, at 11:18 AM, Duncan P. N. Exon Smith <dexonsmith at apple.com> wrote:
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>>> On 2014-Oct-27, at 09:33, David Blaikie <dblaikie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> Would it be possible to omit the names of unreferenced nested metadata? (if you have a bunch of member functions in a class, but don't need to refer to them elsewhere (eg: those member functions aren't defined in this translation unit)) - that'd help readability/writeability, but probably wouldn't impact FileCheck.
>>>> 
>>>> Certainly possible, but is it generally desirable?
>>> 
>>> I would imagine so - is there any reason the names/numbers would be preferable?
>> 
>> I don't know :).
>> 
>> @Adrian?
> 
> There are certainly precedents in LLVM assembly language for specifying child nodes inline. For instance, you can write
>   call @llvm.dbg.value(i32 %var, metadata !{}, metadata !{i32 ..., ...})
> I think that would be reasonable.

Oh -- I get it.  I thought David was suggesting a semantic change, where
the member functions would be skipped entirely if they weren't referenced.
Hence punting it over :).

Anyway, skipping the name/number is possible too.  I don't see any reason
for them either in that situation.