[llvm-dev] [RFC] Function stack size section.

[Jessica Paquette via llvm-dev]

This sounds nice! I’d prefer a more general cross-platform patch personally. I can imagine that this would be useful to know for, say, ARM/AArch64 as well.

- Jessica

> On Aug 31, 2017, at 7:09 AM, Sean Eveson via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
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> Hi All,
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> We have a local change in the X86AsmPrinter that outputs a section containing metadata on function stack sizes. We use this to measure changes to stack size between versions of the compiler and it also allows our licensees to do the same for their code.
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> The section simply contains pairs of function symbol references (8 byte) and stack sizes (unsigned LEB128).
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> We would like to upstream this change as a PS4 only modification, or as a more general cross platform one.
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> Would people be interested in (or happy with) such a patch, target specific or otherwise?
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> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Sean Eveson
> SN Systems - Sony Interactive Entertainment
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