[llvm-dev] [RFC] Embedded bitcode and related upstream (Part II)

[Eric Christopher via llvm-dev]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 4:01 PM Duncan P. N. Exon Smith <
dexonsmith at apple.com> wrote:

> >>> 3. Bitcode symbol hiding:
>
> [...]
>
> >>> 4. Debug info strip to line-tables pass:
> >>> As the name suggested, this pass strip down the full debug info to
> line-tables only. This is also one of the steps we took to prevent the leak
> of source code information in bitcode.
> >>>
> >>> I'm very curious about what's going on here. Could you elaborate? :)
> >>
> >> Cc Adrian
> >> He would know more about it. I would only know that it can reconstruct
> -gline-tables-only debug info from full debug info. We use it as a part of
> the bitcode pipeline because we don't want the bitcode file to be
> exceedingly large but I can see this pass to be useful in other
> circumstances.
> >
> > :)
>
> IIRC, removing the type information and flattening the scope tree also
> helps to prevent leaking information about the source file, as part of (3)
> above.


Yes, I would agree with that as well.

-eric
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