[LLVMdev] PDB support in LLVM

[Zachary Turner]

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 4:16 PM Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at google.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 3:46 PM Rohan Bajaj <rohanbajaj84 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Is making PDB files for corresponding IR supported in LLVM latest version?
>>
>
> Not today.
>
>
>>
>> After some searching I see llvm-pdbdump, but I want to annotate the IR
>> with debug information so that when I write bitcode it has pdb information.
>>
>> I've heard of CodeView, but it seems to be only for line information. I
>> want variable values also.
>>
>> I would be ok to use DWARF if Visual Studio could understand it using
>> LLDB but I don't know how to do that or if it is support.
>>
>
> Zach (CC-ed) and others are actively working on making LLDB work well on
> Windows, including reading DWARF debug information on Windows and
> potentially integration with Visual Studio (although I think that is
> further away at the moment). However, further discussion might be better on
> the LLDB mailing lists.
>

It's worth pointing out that CodeView is **not** only for line information.
It's for everything.  It's just that LLVM currently only understands a
subset of CodeView record types related to line information.
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