[llvm-dev] Preserving debug metadata across optimization

[Jan Vesely via llvm-dev]

Hi,

I've recently run into a problem of missing !dbg metadata after the
code has been optimized (even opt -O1).
The original code was generated using llvmlite python package and I've
verified that all instructions have their !dbg metadata present.
After optimizing the module (even opt -O1) I see that some
instructions (~25%) don't have any dbg metadata.
These are mostly getelementptr and bitcasts, but there's also few
fsubs.
One example:
  %.510.i.i = bitcast [2 x double]* %.4 to i8*
  tail call void @llvm.memset.p0i8.i64(i8* nonnull align 8 %.510.i.i, i8 0, i64 16, i1 false) #5, !dbg !2822, !alias.scope !2825, !noalias !2830

There are no memset calls in the original code. the introduced bitcast is lacking the location metadata.
The behaviour persists across llvm-6/7/git.
Is it just a series of bugs that I'm hitting?

thanks,
Jan
-- 
Jan Vesely <jan.vesely at rutgers.edu>
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