[llvm-dev] [PATCH] D14358: DWARF's forward decl of a template should have template parameters.

[David Blaikie via llvm-dev]

On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Robinson, Paul <
Paul_Robinson at playstation.sony.com> wrote:

> | Types are a bit more vague (as to whether omitting unreferenced types is
> supported by the standard) DWARF 4 just says "Structure, union, and class
> types are represented by debugging information entries ...".
>
> There's some expansion of the "permissive" discussion in the works for
> DWARF 5.  In essence, DWARF doesn't tell you _what_ to describe, but if you
> describe something, you do it _how_ the spec says.  So, omitting unused
> types and function declarations, or lexical blocks with no containing
> declarations, or even things like inlined subroutines, etc. etc. is all
> kosher, while things like the template parameter DIEs and the artificial
> import of anonymous namespaces are actually required.
>

Honestly I'm more with you on the template parameter DIEs than I am on the
anonymous namespace... especially from a source fidelity perspective.


>
>
> | Any size numbers for this change?
>
> I got in the neighborhood of 1% (just under, IIRC) of the sum of .debug_*
> sections for a self-build of Clang.
>

Ah, cool - good to know. Thanks!


>
>
> | In any case, it seems like it might make sense for you to upstream your
> template naming change and put it under the PS4 debugger tuning option, and
> put this change there too, once the motivation for it is in-tree. At that
> point, while I'd be curious about the size tradeoff, it'd be essentially
> academic
>
>
>
> Exposing tuning up through Clang is actually very nearly at the top of my
> list now.
>

Great :)
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