[llvm-dev] Adding DWARF5 accelerator table support to llvm

[Victor Leschuk via llvm-dev]

Hello, I hope I will have time to help you with that. I discussed
dwarfv5 .debug_names implementation with involved party from RH. Anyway
even if can't help much could you keep me in the loop please?


On 01/17/2018 07:13 PM, Pavel Labath via llvm-dev wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> In <https://reviews.llvm.org/D41986#977215> it was brought up that
> there are at least two parties interested in having DWARF5 accelerator
> tables implemented, so I'm writing this email to see if there's anyone
> else interested in this topic, and to try to synchronize our efforts.
>
> Our interest for this stems from a desire to make dwarf parsing fast
> on non-apple targets (specifically android). As you may know, apple
> targets already use a non-standard accelerator table format, which was
> a precursor to the dwarf5 one. Due to other differences in debug info
> deployment model, the apple tables are not directly applicable to
> other targets, so instead of trying to make them fit, we chose to go
> with the standard approach.
>
> I personally will have some time to work on this this quarter or two,
> and my plan is roughly the following:
> 1. add .debug_names support to llvm-dwarfdump via the DebugInfo
> library (to enable testing of the table generation)
> 2. add .debug_names generation support (not enabled by default)
> 3. add .debug_names support to lldb
> 4. validate all three things work together
> 5. hook up .debug_names to clang's -glldb flag.
> 6. add .debug_names support to lld (accelerator table merging)
>
> Right now I have (1) roughly implemented, and I think I'll be able to
> put it up for review in a couple of days (although I expect the review
> will go through several revisions before being accepted). I also have
> a very basic implementation of (2), but this is still quite far from
> being upstreamable.
>
> So, my question is whether anyone is planning to work, or maybe
> working already on dwarf5 accelerator tables? Help with reviewing
> patches would also be greatly appreciated. If you have any questions
> or concerns, let me know.
>
> regards,
> Pavel
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Best Regards,

Victor Leschuk | Software Engineer | Access Softek