[LLVMdev] Minimizing -gmlt

[David Blaikie]

On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Eric Christopher <echristo at gmail.com> wrote:

> DW_AT_frame_base is largely used as a beginning offset to find things for
> other expressions, for example it can be used to short cut location
> information for variables (+/- from the frame base which could be a
> complicated expression) or used to find captured variables that might be on
> another function's stack (largely nested functions). It can also help with
> giving a shortcut for inlined function stack frames if they're distinct,
> but afaik we don't do that :)
>
> So unless we're going to start giving out variable contents with gmlt we
> don't need to worry.
>

Sounds good - I'll roll with it until we decide to do that or otherwise
discover a use for it.


>
> -eric
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> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at google.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 4:40 PM, David Blaikie <dblaikie at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> So... yes/no/maybe?
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>> Other than the frame pointer, all of these sound abstractly good to
>> me.... but what do I know. Looking forward to others' with more information
>> chiming in.
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