[LLVMdev] llvm-dwarfdump improvements

[Eric Christopher]

On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Frédéric Riss <friss at apple.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> [ I think I put the most important contributors to the DebugInfo stuff in
> Cc:. Is there anyone else that I am missing? ]
>

No one comes to mind.


>
> Just a short notice that I am currently working on making llvm-dwarfdump
> more developer friendly. There are quite a few features in Darwin’s
> dwarfdump that we find quite useful and that we would like to contribute to
> llvm-dwarfdump.
>
>
Hopefully we'll get the verifier too ;)


> I have started by augmenting the -debug-dump=info output:
>  - Symbolic names for attribute values
>  - Line table lookups for DW_AT_decl_file
>  - Annotate DW_AT_specification with the target DIE’s name
>  - DWARF expression pretty-printing
>
>
Awesome.


> With these enhancements, the debug_info dump is nearly always sufficient
> and the user rarely needs to go and decode himself the referenced content
> of other debug sections.
>
>
Though these changes should also make the dumping of those sections much
better too?


> There will be more work by me going on in llvm-dwarfdump/libDebugInfo
> these coming weeks.
> I’ll start sending patches to llvm-commits later today.
>

Thanks for the heads up.

-eric


>
> Cheers,
> Fred
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