[LLVMdev] MS fork

[Vadim Chugunov]

But even if you use link.exe for linking, you'd still need to emit debug
info into object files first, at least in the AOT case.   Unless, of
course, you are not planning to use LLVM backend on Windows at all.

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Andy Ayers <andya at microsoft.com> wrote:

>  The LLILC project does not require direct interaction with the PDB, so
> it’s not part of our plans.
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> The JIT uses a special reporting format to communicate debug info (frame
> info and machine->IL mappings) back to the CoreCLR EE. The debugger joins
> this with the frontend-produced debug information (IL->source and logical
> frame offset->local, which is in a PDB) to complete the picture.
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> Something similar will likely happen in the AOT case, where the “code
> generator” just produces a subset of the data, and some other entity (the
> linker, say) incorporates that into the PDB.
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> *From:* llvmdev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu [mailto:llvmdev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu] *On
> Behalf Of *Vadim Chugunov
> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 15, 2015 11:49 AM
> *To:* Russell Hadley
> *Cc:* llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu
>
> *Subject:* Re: [LLVMdev] MS fork
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>
> Just curious, are you planning to add support for debug info emission in
> mspdb format?
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> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 7:01 AM, Russell Hadley <rhadley at microsoft.com>
> wrote:
>
>  Chandler has it right.  Our intent is to upstream everything.  The MS
> fork will be used as a staging area for LLVM changes as we work to get them
> upstreamed.  Tactically we're merging the MS fork everyday with mainline to
> try and stay close.
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> We're still ramping up right now, and trying to figure out how best to
> work day to day, but our over arching goal is to enable (mainline) LLVM to
> be a great code generator for C#.
>
>
>
> -R
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> *From:* llvmdev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu <llvmdev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu> on
> behalf of Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at google.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 15, 2015 3:14 AM
> *To:* C Bergström; llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu
> *Subject:* Re: [LLVMdev] MS fork
>
>
>
> They presented on LLILC at EuroLLVM, and indicated they were just starting
> up but were definitely planning to contribute everything back to upstream.
> Personally, I'm pretty happy to see them talking actively to the community,
> participating effectively in EuroLLVM and some of the stuff they talked
> about there was really exciting.
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> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 10:16 PM C Bergström <cbergstrom at pathscale.com>
> wrote:
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> Dear MS,
>
> Will you be cleaning up and encouraging people to get the work on
> github upstream?
> https://github.com/Microsoft/llvm/commits/MS
>
> Thanks
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