[llvm-dev] [Proposal][Debuginfo] dsymutil-like tool for ELF.
Alexey via llvm-dev
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Fri Sep 4 03:42:32 PDT 2020
On 03.09.2020 20:56, David Blaikie wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 5:15 AM Alexey <avl.lapshin at gmail.com
> <mailto:avl.lapshin at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
> On 03.09.2020 01:36, David Blaikie wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 3:26 PM Alexey <avl.lapshin at gmail.com
>> <mailto:avl.lapshin at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 02.09.2020 21:44, David Blaikie wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 9:56 AM Alexey <avl.lapshin at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:avl.lapshin at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 01.09.2020 20:07, David Blaikie wrote:
>>>> Fair enough - thanks for clarifying the differences!
>>>> (I'd still lean a bit towards this being dwz-esque, as
>>>> you say "an extension of classic dwz"
>>> I doubt a little about "llvm-dwz" since it might confuse
>>> people who would expect exactly the same behavior.
>>> But if we think of it as "an extension of classic dwz"
>>> and the possible confusion is not a big deal then
>>> I would be fine with "llvm-dwz".
>>>> using a bit more domain knowledge (of terminators and
>>>> C++ odr - though I'm not sure dsymutil does rely on the
>>>> ODR, does it? It relies on it to know that two names
>>>> represent the same type, I suppose, but doesn't assume
>>>> they're already identical, instead it merges their
>>>> members))
>>>
>>> if dsymutil is able to find a full definition then it
>>> would remove all other definitions(which matched by
>>> name) and set all references to that found definition.
>>> If it is not able to find a full definition then it
>>> would do nothing. i.e. if there are two incomplete
>>> definitions(DW_AT_declaration (true)) with the same name
>>> then they would not be merged. That is a possible
>>> improvement - to teach dsymutil to merge incomplete types.
>>>
>>> Huh, what does it do with extra member function definitions
>>> found in later definitions? (eg: struct x {
>>> template<typename T> void f(); }; - in one translation unit
>>> x::f<int> is instantiated, in another x::f<float> is
>>> instantiated - how are the two represented with dsymutil?)
>>
>> They would be considered as two not matched types. dsymutil
>> would not merge them somehow and thus would not use single
>> type description. There would be two separate types called
>> "x" which would have mostly matched members but differ with
>> x::f<int> and x::f<float>. No any de-duplication in that case.
>>
>> Oh, that's unfortunate. It'd be nice for C++ at least, to
>> implement a potentially faster dsymutil mode that could get this
>> right and not have to actually check for type equivalence,
>> instead relying on the name of the type to determine that it must
>> be identical.
>
> Right. That would result in even more size reduction.
>
>>
>> The first instance of the type that's encountered has its fully
>> qualified name or mangled name recorded in a map pointing to the
>> DIE. Any future instance gets downgraded to a declaration, and
>> /certain/ members get dropped, but other members get stuck on the
>> declaration (same sort of DWARF you see with "struct foo {
>> virtual void f1(); template<typename T> void f2() { } }; void
>> test(foo& f) { f.f2<int>(); }"). Recording all the member
>> functions of the type/static member variable types might be
>> needed in cases where some member functions are defined in one
>> translation unit and some defined in another - though I guess
>> that infrastructure is already in place/that just works today.
> My understanding, is that there is not such infrastructure
> currently. Current infrastructure allows to reference single
> existing type declaration(canonical) from other units. It does not
> allow to reference different parts(in different units) of
> incomplete type.
>
>
> Huh, so what does the DWARF look like when you define one member
> function in one file, and another member function (common with inline
> functions) in another file?
>
> I think it would be necessary to change the order of how
> compilation units are processed to implement such types merging.
>
>
> Oh, I wasn't suggesting merging them - or didn't mean to suggest that.
> I meant doing something like what we do in LLVM for type homed
> (no-standalone) DWARF, where we attach function declarations to type
> declarations, eg:
>
> struct x {
>
> void f1();
>
> void f2();
>
> template<typename T>
>
> static void f3();
>
> };
>
> #ifdef HOME
>
> void x::f1() {
>
> }
>
> #endif
>
> #ifdef AWAY
>
> void x::f2() {
>
> }
>
> #endif
>
> #ifdef TEMPL
>
> template<typename T>
>
> void x::f3() {
>
> }
>
> template void x::f3<int>();
>
> #endif
>
> Building "HOME" would show the DWARF I'd expect to see the first time
> a type definition is encountered during dsym.
> Building "AWAY" raises the question of - what does dsymutil do with
> this DWARF? Does it deduplicate the type, and make the definition of
> 'f2' point to the 'f2' declaration in the original type described in
> the prior CU defined in "HOME"? If it doesn't do that, it could/that
> would be good to reduce the DWARF size.
> Building "TEMPL" would show the DWARF I'd expect to see if a future
> use of that type definition was encountered but the original/home
> definition had no declaration of this function: we should then emit
> maybe an "extension" to the type (could be a straight declaration, or
> maybe some newer/weirder hybrid that points to the definition with
> some attribute) & then inject the declaration of the template/other
> new member into this extension definition, etc.
>
Please check the reduced DWARF, generated by current dsymutil for above
example :
0x0000000b: DW_TAG_compile_unit
DW_AT_language (DW_LANG_C_plus_plus)
DW_AT_name ("home.cpp")
DW_AT_stmt_list (0x00000000)
DW_AT_low_pc (0x0000000100000f80)
DW_AT_high_pc (0x0000000100000f8b)
0x0000002a: DW_TAG_structure_type
DW_AT_name ("x")
DW_AT_byte_size (0x01)
0x00000033: DW_TAG_subprogram
DW_AT_linkage_name ("_ZN1x2f1Ev")
DW_AT_name ("f1")
DW_AT_type (0x000000000000005e "int")
DW_AT_declaration (true)
DW_AT_external (true)
DW_AT_APPLE_optimized (true)
0x00000047: NULL
0x00000048: DW_TAG_subprogram
DW_AT_linkage_name ("_ZN1x2f2Ev")
DW_AT_name ("f2")
DW_AT_type (0x000000000000005e "int")
DW_AT_declaration (true)
DW_AT_external (true)
DW_AT_APPLE_optimized (true)
0x0000005c: NULL
0x0000005d: NULL
0x0000006a: DW_TAG_subprogram
DW_AT_low_pc (0x0000000100000f80)
DW_AT_high_pc (0x0000000100000f8b)
DW_AT_specification (0x0000000000000033 "_ZN1x2f1Ev")
0x000000a0: DW_TAG_compile_unit
DW_AT_language (DW_LANG_C_plus_plus)
DW_AT_name ("away.cpp")
DW_AT_stmt_list (0x00000048)
DW_AT_low_pc (0x0000000100000f90)
DW_AT_high_pc (0x0000000100000f9b)
0x000000c6: DW_TAG_subprogram
DW_AT_low_pc (0x0000000100000f90)
DW_AT_high_pc (0x0000000100000f9b)
DW_AT_specification (0x0000000000000048 "_ZN1x2f2Ev")
0x000000fc: DW_TAG_compile_unit
DW_AT_language (DW_LANG_C_plus_plus)
DW_AT_name ("templ.cpp")
DW_AT_stmt_list (0x00000090)
DW_AT_low_pc (0x0000000100000fa0)
DW_AT_high_pc (0x0000000100000fab)
0x0000011b: DW_TAG_structure_type
DW_AT_name ("x")
DW_AT_byte_size (0x01)
0x00000124: DW_TAG_subprogram
DW_AT_linkage_name ("_ZN1x2f1Ev")
DW_AT_name ("f1")
DW_AT_type (0x0000000000000168 "int")
DW_AT_declaration (true)
DW_AT_external (true)
DW_AT_APPLE_optimized (true)
0x00000138: NULL
0x00000139: DW_TAG_subprogram
DW_AT_linkage_name ("_ZN1x2f2Ev")
DW_AT_name ("f2")
DW_AT_type (0x0000000000000168 "int")
DW_AT_declaration (true)
DW_AT_external (true)
DW_AT_APPLE_optimized (true)
0x0000014d: NULL
0x0000014e: DW_TAG_subprogram
DW_AT_linkage_name ("_ZN1x2f3IiEEiv")
DW_AT_name ("f3<int>")
DW_AT_type (0x0000000000000168 "int")
DW_AT_declaration (true)
DW_AT_external (true)
DW_AT_APPLE_optimized (true)
0x00000166: NULL
0x00000167: NULL
0x00000174: DW_TAG_subprogram
DW_AT_low_pc (0x0000000100000fa0)
DW_AT_high_pc (0x0000000100000fab)
DW_AT_specification (0x000000000000014e
"_ZN1x2f3IiEEiv")
0x00000190: NULL
>Building "HOME" would show the DWARF I'd expect to see the first time
a type definition is encountered during dsym.
compile unit "home.cpp" contains the type definition(0x0000002a) and
reference to its member(DW_AT_specification (0x0000000000000033
"_ZN1x2f1Ev")).
>Building "AWAY" raises the question of - what does dsymutil do with
this DWARF? Does it deduplicate the type, and make the definition of
'f2' point to the 'f2' declaration in the original type described in the
prior CU defined in "HOME"? If it doesn't do that, it could/that would
be good to reduce the DWARF size.
compile unit "away.cpp" does not contain type definition and contains
reference to type definition from compile unit "home.cpp"
(DW_AT_specification (0x0000000000000048 "_ZN1x2f2Ev")).
i.e. dsymutil deduplicates the type and makes the definition of 'f2'
point to the 'f2' declaration in the original type described in the
prior CU "home.cpp".
>Building "TEMPL" would show the DWARF I'd expect to see if a future
use of that type definition was encountered but the original/home
definition had no declaration of this function: we should then emit
maybe an "extension" to the type (could be a straight declaration, or
maybe some newer/weirder hybrid that points to the definition with some
attribute) & then inject the declaration of the template/other new
member into this extension definition, etc.
compile unit "templ.cpp" contains the type definition(0x0000011b) which
matches with (0x0000002a) plus defines the new member 0x0000014e.
It also references this new member by DW_AT_specification
(0x000000000000014e "_ZN1x2f3IiEEiv"). In this case type description is
not de-duplicated.
Do you suggest that 0x0000011b should be transformed into something like
that:
0x000000fc: DW_TAG_compile_unit
DW_AT_language (DW_LANG_C_plus_plus)
DW_AT_name ("templ.cpp")
DW_AT_stmt_list (0x00000090)
DW_AT_low_pc (0x0000000100000fa0)
DW_AT_high_pc (0x0000000100000fab)
0x0000011b: DW_TAG_structure_type
DW_AT_specification (0x0000002a "x")
0x00000124: DW_TAG_subprogram
DW_AT_linkage_name ("_ZN1x2f3IiEEiv")
DW_AT_name ("f3<int>")
DW_AT_type (0x000000000000005e "int")
DW_AT_declaration (true)
DW_AT_external (true)
DW_AT_APPLE_optimized (true)
0x00000138: NULL
0x00000139: NULL
0x00000140: DW_TAG_subprogram
DW_AT_low_pc (0x0000000100000fa0)
DW_AT_high_pc (0x0000000100000fab)
DW_AT_specification (0x0000000000000124
"_ZN1x2f3IiEEiv")
0x00000155: NULL
Did I correctly get the idea?
> Currently, after the compilation unit is analyzed(scanned for
> types and dead info) it started to be emitted.
> It looks like, to support merging, it would be necessary to
> analyze all CUs first(to create canonical representation) and then
> start to emit them.
>
> I am going to start to work on a prototype of parallel
> per-compilation unit implementation of DWARFLinker.
> (basing on the scenario which Jonas described in other letter in
> that thread).
> The types merging could be the next step...
>
> Following is the result of compilation of your example on
> darwin(showing that dsymutil does not merge such types):
>
>
> Ah, yeah, that is unfortunate - so if there were other members of "x"
> they would be duplicated in this case, right?
>
> This is a pretty common issue in C++ - there are 3 reasons I know of
> where LLVM would produce distinct descriptions:
> 1) member function templates, like this
> 2) member/nested types
> 3) implicit special members (not present unless instantiated - so if
> you copy construct an object in one file and not in another, two
> different types)
>
>
> $ cat struct.h
>
> #ifndef MY_H
> #define MY_H
>
> struct foo {
> template <class T> int fff () { return sizeof(T); }
> };
>
> #endif // MY_H
>
> $ cat mod1.cpp
>
> #include "struct.h"
> int test1 ( ) {
> foo var;
> return var.fff<int>();
> }
>
> $ cat mod2.cpp
>
> #include "struct.h"
> int test2 ( ) {
> foo var;
> return var.fff<float>();
> }
>
> $ cat main.cpp
>
> #include "struct.h"
> int test1();
> int test2();
> int main ( void ) {
> test1();
> test2();
> return 0;
> }
>
> $ clang++ main.cpp mod1.cpp mod2.cpp -O -g -fno-inline
>
> $ llvm-dwarfdump -a a.out.dSYM/Contents/Resources/DWARF/a.out | less
>
> 0x00000056: DW_TAG_compile_unit
>
> DW_AT_language (DW_LANG_C_plus_plus)
> DW_AT_name ("mod1.cpp")
>
> 0x000000ae: DW_TAG_structure_type <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
> DW_AT_name ("foo")
> DW_AT_byte_size (0x01)
>
> 0x000000b7: DW_TAG_subprogram
>
> DW_AT_linkage_name ("_ZN3foo3fffIiEEiv")
> DW_AT_name ("fff<int>")
>
>
> 0x0000011f: DW_TAG_compile_unit
>
> DW_AT_language (DW_LANG_C_plus_plus)
> DW_AT_name ("mod2.cpp")
>
> 0x00000177: DW_TAG_structure_type <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
> DW_AT_name ("foo")
> DW_AT_byte_size (0x01)
>
> 0x00000180: DW_TAG_subprogram
>
> DW_AT_linkage_name ("_ZN3foo3fffIfEEiv")
> DW_AT_name ("fff<float>")
>
>
>>
>> - Dave
>>
>>
>>> Alexey.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> But I don't have super strong feelings about the naming.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 6:36 AM Alexey
>>>> <avl.lapshin at gmail.com <mailto:avl.lapshin at gmail.com>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 01.09.2020 06:27, David Blaikie wrote:
>>>>> A quick note: The feature as currently proposed
>>>>> sounds like it's an exact match for 'dwz'? Is
>>>>> there any benefit to this over the existing dwz
>>>>> project? Is it different in some ways I'm not
>>>>> aware of? (I haven't actually used dwz, so I might
>>>>> have some mistaken ideas about how it should work)
>>>>>
>>>>> If it's going to solve the same general problem,
>>>>> but be in the llvm project instead, then maybe it
>>>>> should be called llvm-dwz.
>>>> It looks like dwz and llvm-dwarfutil are not
>>>> exactly matched in functionality.
>>>>
>>>> dwz is a program that attempts to optimize DWARF
>>>> debugging information
>>>> contained in ELF shared libraries and ELF
>>>> executables for *size*.
>>>>
>>>> llvm-dwarfutil is a tool that is used for
>>>> processing debug
>>>> info(DWARF) located in built binary files to
>>>> improve debug info *quality*,
>>>> reduce debug info *size* and accelerate debug info
>>>> *processing*.
>>>>
>>>> Things which are supposed to be done by
>>>> llvm-dwarfutil and which are not
>>>> done by dwz: removing obsolete debug info, building
>>>> indexes, stripping
>>>> unneeded debug sections, compress/decompress debug
>>>> sections.
>>>>
>>>> Common thing is that both of these tools do debug
>>>> info size reduction.
>>>> But they do this using different approaches:
>>>>
>>>> 1. dwz reduces the size of debug info by creating
>>>> partial compilation units
>>>> for duplicated parts. So that these partial
>>>> compilation units could be imported
>>>> in every duplicated place. AFAIU, That
>>>> optimization gives the most size saving effect.
>>>>
>>>> another size saving optimization is ODR types
>>>> deduplication.
>>>>
>>>> 2. llvm-dwarfutil reduces the size of debug info by
>>>> ODR types deduplication
>>>> which gives the most size saving effect in
>>>> llvm-dwarfutil case.
>>>>
>>>> another size saving optimization is removing
>>>> obsolete debug info.
>>>> (which actually is not only about size but about
>>>> correctness also)
>>>>
>>>> So, it looks like these tools are not equal. If we
>>>> would consider that
>>>> llvm-dwz is an extension of classic dwz then we
>>>> could probably
>>>> name it as llvm-dwz.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Though I understand the desire for this to grow
>>>>> other functionality, like DWARF-aware dwp-ing.
>>>>> Might be better for this to busybox and provide
>>>>> that functionality under llvm-dwp instead, or more
>>>>> likely I Suspect, that the existing llvm-dwp will
>>>>> be rewritten (probably by me) to use more of lld's
>>>>> infrastructure to be more efficient (it's current
>>>>> object reading/writing logic is using LLVM's
>>>>> libObject and MCStreamer, which is a bit
>>>>> inefficient for a very content-unaware linking
>>>>> process) and then maybe that could be taught to
>>>>> use DwarfLinker as a library to optionally do
>>>>> DWARF-aware linking depending on the users
>>>>> time/space tradeoff desires. Still benefiting from
>>>>> any improvements to the underlying DwarfLinker
>>>>> library (at which point that would be shared
>>>>> between llvm-dsymutil, llvm-dwz, and llvm-dwp).
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 7:29 AM Alexey
>>>>> <avl.lapshin at gmail.com
>>>>> <mailto:avl.lapshin at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> We propose llvm-dwarfutil - a dsymutil-like
>>>>> tool for ELF.
>>>>> Any thoughts on this?
>>>>> Thanks in advance, Alexey.
>>>>>
>>>>> ======================================================================
>>>>>
>>>>> llvm-dwarfutil(Apndx A) - is a tool that is
>>>>> used for processing debug
>>>>> info(DWARF)
>>>>> located in built binary files to improve debug
>>>>> info quality,
>>>>> reduce debug info size and accelerate debug
>>>>> info processing.
>>>>> Supported object files formats: ELF,
>>>>> MachO(Apndx B), COFF(Apndx C),
>>>>> WASM(Apndx C).
>>>>>
>>>>> ======================================================================
>>>>>
>>>>> Specifically, the tool would do:
>>>>>
>>>>> - Remove obsolete debug info which refers
>>>>> to code deleted by the linker
>>>>> doing the garbage collection (gc-sections).
>>>>>
>>>>> - Deduplicate debug type definitions for
>>>>> reducing resulting size of
>>>>> binary.
>>>>>
>>>>> - Build accelerator/index tables.
>>>>> = .debug_aranges, .debug_names,
>>>>> .gdb_index, .debug_pubnames,
>>>>> .debug_pubtypes.
>>>>>
>>>>> - Strip unneeded tables.
>>>>> = .debug_aranges, .debug_names,
>>>>> .gdb_index, .debug_pubnames,
>>>>> .debug_pubtypes.
>>>>>
>>>>> - Compress or decompress debug info as
>>>>> requested.
>>>>>
>>>>> Possible feature:
>>>>>
>>>>> - Join split dwarf .dwo files in a single
>>>>> file containing all debug info
>>>>> (convert split DWARF into monolithic DWARF).
>>>>>
>>>>> ======================================================================
>>>>>
>>>>> User interface:
>>>>>
>>>>> OVERVIEW: A tool for optimizing debug info
>>>>> located in the built binary.
>>>>>
>>>>> USAGE: llvm-dwarfutil [options] input output
>>>>>
>>>>> OPTIONS: (Apndx E)
>>>>>
>>>>> ======================================================================
>>>>>
>>>>> Implementation notes:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. Removing obsolete debug info would be done
>>>>> using DWARFLinker llvm
>>>>> library.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2. Data types deduplication would be done
>>>>> using DWARFLinker llvm library.
>>>>>
>>>>> 3. Accelerator/index tables would be generated
>>>>> using DWARFLinker llvm
>>>>> library.
>>>>>
>>>>> 4. Interface of DWARFLinker library would be
>>>>> changed in such way that it
>>>>> would be possible to switch on/off various
>>>>> stages:
>>>>>
>>>>> class DWARFLinker {
>>>>> setDoRemoveObsoleteInfo ( bool
>>>>> DoRemoveObsoleteInfo = false);
>>>>>
>>>>> setDoAppleNames ( bool DoAppleNames =
>>>>> false );
>>>>> setDoAppleNamespaces ( bool DoAppleNamespaces
>>>>> = false );
>>>>> setDoAppleTypes ( bool DoAppleTypes =
>>>>> false );
>>>>> setDoObjC ( bool DoObjC = false );
>>>>> setDoDebugPubNames ( bool DoDebugPubNames
>>>>> = false );
>>>>> setDoDebugPubTypes ( bool DoDebugPubTypes
>>>>> = false );
>>>>>
>>>>> setDoDebugNames (bool DoDebugNames = false);
>>>>> setDoGDBIndex (bool DoGDBIndex = false);
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> 5. Copying source file contents, stripping
>>>>> tables,
>>>>> compressing/decompressing tables
>>>>> would be done by ObjCopy llvm
>>>>> library(extracted from llvm-objcopy):
>>>>>
>>>>> Error executeObjcopyOnBinary(const
>>>>> CopyConfig &Config,
>>>>>
>>>>> object::COFFObjectFile &In, Buffer &Out);
>>>>> Error executeObjcopyOnBinary(const
>>>>> CopyConfig &Config,
>>>>>
>>>>> object::ELFObjectFileBase &In, Buffer &Out);
>>>>> Error executeObjcopyOnBinary(const
>>>>> CopyConfig &Config,
>>>>>
>>>>> object::MachOObjectFile &In, Buffer &Out);
>>>>> Error executeObjcopyOnBinary(const
>>>>> CopyConfig &Config,
>>>>>
>>>>> object::WasmObjectFile &In, Buffer &Out);
>>>>>
>>>>> 6. Address ranges and single addresses
>>>>> pointing to removed code should
>>>>> be marked
>>>>> with tombstone value in the input file:
>>>>>
>>>>> -2 for .debug_ranges and .debug_loc.
>>>>> -1 for other .debug* tables.
>>>>>
>>>>> 7. Prototype implementation -
>>>>> https://reviews.llvm.org/D86539.
>>>>>
>>>>> ======================================================================
>>>>>
>>>>> Roadmap:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. Refactor llvm-objcopy to extract it`s
>>>>> implementation into separate
>>>>> library
>>>>> ObjCopy(in LLVM tree).
>>>>>
>>>>> 2. Create a command line utility using existed
>>>>> DWARFLinker and ObjCopy
>>>>> implementation. First version is supposed
>>>>> to work with only ELF
>>>>> input object files.
>>>>> It would take input ELF file with
>>>>> unoptimized debug info and create
>>>>> output
>>>>> ELF file with optimized debug info. That
>>>>> version would be done out
>>>>> of the llvm tree.
>>>>>
>>>>> 3. Make a tool to be able to work in
>>>>> multi-thread mode.
>>>>>
>>>>> 4. Consider it to be included into LLVM tree.
>>>>>
>>>>> 5. Support DWARF5 tables.
>>>>>
>>>>> ======================================================================
>>>>>
>>>>> Appendix A. Should this tool be implemented as
>>>>> a new tool or as an extension
>>>>> to dsymutil/llvm-objcopy?
>>>>>
>>>>> There already exists a tool which removes
>>>>> obsolete debug info on
>>>>> darwin - dsymutil.
>>>>> Why create another tool instead of
>>>>> extending the already existed
>>>>> dsymutil/llvm-objcopy?
>>>>>
>>>>> The main functionality of dsymutil is
>>>>> located in a separate library
>>>>> - DWARFLinker.
>>>>> Thus, dsymutil utility is a command-line
>>>>> interface for DWARFLinker.
>>>>> dsymutil has
>>>>> another type of input/output data: it
>>>>> takes several object files and
>>>>> address map
>>>>> as input and creates a .dSYM bundle with
>>>>> linked debug info as
>>>>> output. llvm-dwarfutil
>>>>> would take a built executable as input and
>>>>> create an optimized
>>>>> executable as output.
>>>>> Additionally, there would be many
>>>>> command-line options specific for
>>>>> only one utility.
>>>>> This means that these
>>>>> utilities(implementing command line interface)
>>>>> would significantly
>>>>> differ. It makes sense not to put another
>>>>> command-line utility
>>>>> inside existing dsymutil,
>>>>> but make it as a separate utility. That is
>>>>> the reason why
>>>>> llvm-dwarfutil suggested to be
>>>>> implemented not as sub-part of dsymutil
>>>>> but as a separate tool.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please share your preference: whether
>>>>> llvm-dwarfutil should be
>>>>> separate utility, or a variant of dsymutil
>>>>> compiled for ELF?
>>>>>
>>>>> ======================================================================
>>>>>
>>>>> Appendix B. The machO object file format is
>>>>> already supported by dsymutil.
>>>>> Depending on the decision whether
>>>>> llvm-dwarfutil would be done as a
>>>>> subproject
>>>>> of dsymutil or as a separate utility -
>>>>> machO would be supported or not.
>>>>>
>>>>> ======================================================================
>>>>>
>>>>> Appendix C. Support for the COFF and WASM
>>>>> object file formats presented as
>>>>> possible future improvement. It would be
>>>>> quite easy to add them
>>>>> assuming
>>>>> that llvm-objcopy already supports these
>>>>> formats. It also would require
>>>>> supporting DWARF6-suggested tombstone
>>>>> values(-1/-2).
>>>>>
>>>>> ======================================================================
>>>>>
>>>>> Appendix D. Documentation.
>>>>>
>>>>> - proposal for DWARF6 which suggested -1/-2
>>>>> values for marking bad
>>>>> addresses
>>>>> http://www.dwarfstd.org/ShowIssue.php?issue=200609.1
>>>>> - dsymutil tool
>>>>> https://llvm.org/docs/CommandGuide/dsymutil.html.
>>>>> - proposal "Remove obsolete debug info in lld."
>>>>> http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2020-May/141468.html
>>>>>
>>>>> ======================================================================
>>>>>
>>>>> Appendix E. Possible command line options:
>>>>>
>>>>> DwarfUtil Options:
>>>>>
>>>>> --build-aranges - generate .debug_aranges table.
>>>>> --build-debug-names - generate .debug_names table.
>>>>> --build-debug-pubnames - generate
>>>>> .debug_pubnames table.
>>>>> --build-debug-pubtypes - generate
>>>>> .debug_pubtypes table.
>>>>> --build-gdb-index - generate .gdb_index table.
>>>>> --compress - Compress debug tables.
>>>>> --decompress - Decompress debug tables.
>>>>> --deduplicate-types - Do ODR deduplication for
>>>>> debug types.
>>>>> --garbage-collect - Do garbage collecting for
>>>>> debug info.
>>>>> --num-threads=<n> - Specify the maximum number
>>>>> (n) of
>>>>> simultaneous threads
>>>>> to use when
>>>>> optimizing input file.
>>>>> Defaults to the
>>>>> number of cores on the
>>>>> current machine.
>>>>> --strip-all - Strip all debug tables.
>>>>> --strip=<name1,name2> - Strip specified debug
>>>>> info tables.
>>>>> --strip-unoptimized-debug - Strip all
>>>>> unoptimized debug tables.
>>>>> --tombstone=<value> - Tombstone value used as
>>>>> a marker of
>>>>> invalid address.
>>>>> =bfd - BFD default value
>>>>> =dwarf6 - Dwarf v6.
>>>>> --verbose - Enable verbose logging and
>>>>> encoding details.
>>>>>
>>>>> Generic Options:
>>>>>
>>>>> --help - Display available options (--help-hidden
>>>>> for more)
>>>>> --version - Display the version of this program
>>>>>
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