[LLVMdev] [RFC] New StackMap format proposal (StackMap v2)

[Hal Finkel]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Juergen Ributzka" <juergen at apple.com>
> To: "Hal Finkel" <hfinkel at anl.gov>
> Cc: "Lang Hames" <lhames at apple.com>, "LLVM Dev" <llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu>
> Sent: Friday, July 10, 2015 11:34:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] [RFC] New StackMap format proposal (StackMap v2)
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> Hi Hal,
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> no, as far as I can recall we don’t make that guarantee for StackMap
> Records. Although, since we record the StackMap Records in function
> order and in instruction order inside a function this has always
> been true, but that wasn’t intentional. This format shouldn’t change
> this, but it also isn’t something that we programmatically enforce.
> 
> Do you depend on that behavior?

No, but I've noticed that it is true in practice, and so I think that we should say something about it one way or another. Especially since, in switching to a fixed-size record format, binary searching now becomes relatively easy/fast. Maybe it would be a useful guarantee?

Thanks again,
Hal

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> -Juergen
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> On Jul 9, 2015, at 4:59 PM, Hal Finkel < hfinkel at anl.gov > wrote:
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> Do you guarantee that these will appear in order of increasing
> instruction offset?
> 
> -Hal
> 

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Hal Finkel
Assistant Computational Scientist
Leadership Computing Facility
Argonne National Laboratory