Summary:
This considers module symbol streams and the global symbol stream to be
roots. Most types that this considers "unreferenced" are referenced by
LF_UDT_MOD_SRC_LINE id records, which VC seems to always include.
Essentially, they are types that the user can only find in the debugger
if they call them by name, they cannot be found by traversing a symbol.
In practice, around 80% of type information in a PDB is referenced by a
symbol. That seems like a reasonable number.
I don't really plan to do anything with this tool. It mostly just exists
for informational purposes, and to confirm that we probably don't need
to implement type reference tracking in LLD. We can continue to merge
all types as we do today without wasting space.
Reviewers: zturner, aganea
Subscribers: mgorny, hiraditya, arphaman, jdoerfert, llvm-commits
Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D59620
llvm-svn: 356692
When investigating various things, we often have a file offset
and what to know what's in the PDB at that address. For example
we may be doing a binary comparison of two LLD-generated PDBs
to look for sources of non-determinism, or we may wish to compare
an LLD-generated PDB with a Microsoft generated PDB for sources
of byte-for-byte incompatibility. In these cases, we can do a
binary diff of the two files, and once we find a mismatched byte
we can use explain to figure out what that byte is, immediately
honining in on the problem.
This patch implements this by trying to narrow the meaning of
a particular file offset down as much as possible.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D44959
llvm-svn: 328799
This has been made obsolete by the fact that almost all of the
things it previously checked for are no longer relevant since
we can just compare bytes in a lot of places.
llvm-svn: 328562
We have llvm-readobj for dumping CodeView from object files, and
llvm-pdbutil has always been more focused on PDB. However,
llvm-pdbutil has a lot of useful options for summarizing debug
information in aggregate and presenting high level statistical
views. Furthermore, it's arguably better as a testing tool since
we don't have to write tests to conform to a state-machine like
structure where you match multiple lines in succession, each
depending on a previous match. llvm-pdbutil dumps much more
concisely, so it's possible to use single-line matches in many
cases where as with readobj tests you have to use multi-line
matches with an implicit state machine.
Because of this, I'm adding object file support to llvm-pdbutil.
In fact, this mirrors the cvdump tool from Microsoft, which also
supports both object files and pdb files. In the future we could
perhaps rename this tool llvm-cvutil.
In the meantime, this allows us to deep dive into object files
the same way we already can with PDB files.
llvm-svn: 312358
We're getting to the point that some MS tools (e.g. DIA) can recognize
our PDBs but others (e.g. link.exe) cannot. I think the way forward is
to improve our tooling to help us find differences more easily. For
example, if we can compile the same program with clang-cl and cl and
have a tool tell us all the places where the PDBs differ, this could
tell us what we're doing wrong. It's tricky though, because there are a
lot of "benign" differences in a PDB. For example, if the string table
in one PDB consists of "foo" followed by "bar" and in the other PDB it
consists of "bar" followed by "foo", this is not necessarily a critical
difference, as long as the uses of these strings also refer to the
correct location. On the other hand, if the second PDB doesn't even
contain the string "foo" at all, this is a critical difference.
diff mode has been in llvm-pdbutil for quite a while, but because of the
above challenge along with some others, it's been hard to make it
useful. I think this patch addresses that. It looks for all the same
things, but it now prints the output in tabular format (carefully
formatted and aligned into tables and fields), and it highlights
critical differences in red, non-critical differences in yellow, and
identical fields in green. This makes it easy to spot the places we
differ, and the general concept of outputting arbitrary fields in
tabular format can be extended to provide analysis into many of the
different types of information that show up in a PDB.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D35039
llvm-svn: 307421
This idea originally came about when I was doing some deep
investigation of why certain bytes in a PDB that we round-tripped
differed from their original bytes in the source PDB. I found
myself having to hack up the code in many places to dump the
bytes of this substream, or that record. It would be nice if
we could just do this for every possible stream, substream,
debug chunk type, etc.
It doesn't make sense to put this under dump because there's just
so many options that would detract from the more common use case
of just dumping deserialized records. So making a new subcommand
seems like the most logical course of action. In doing so, we
already have two command line options that are suitable for this
new subcommand, so start out by moving them there.
llvm-svn: 306056
Now you run llvm-pdbutil dump <options>. This is a followup
after having renamed the tool, whereas before raw was obviously
just the style of dumping, whereas now "dump" is the action to
perform with the "util".
llvm-svn: 306055
This resubmits commit c0c249e9f2ef83e1d1e5f166b50673d92f3579d7.
It was broken due to some weird template issues, which have
since been fixed.
llvm-svn: 305517
This reverts commit 83ea17ebf2106859a51fbc2a86031b44d33696ad.
This is failing due to some strange template problems, so reverting
until it can be straightened out.
llvm-svn: 305505
After some internal discussions, we agreed that the raw output style had
outlived its usefulness. It was originally created before we had even
thought of dumping to YAML, and it was intended to give us some insight
into the internals of a PDB file. Now we have YAML mode which does
almost exactly this but is more powerful in that it can round-trip back
to a PDB, which the raw mode could not do. So the raw mode had become
purely a maintenance burden.
One option was to just delete it. However, its original goal was to be
as readable as possible while staying close to the "metal" - i.e.
presenting the output in a way that maps directly to the underlying file
format. We don't actually need that last requirement anymore since it's
covered by the yaml mode, so we could repurpose "raw" mode to actually
just be as readable as possible.
This patch implements about 80% of the functionality previously in raw
mode, but in a completely different style that is more akin to what
cvdump outputs. Records are very compressed, often times appearing on
just one line. One nice thing about this is that it makes full record
matching easier, because you can grep for indices, names, and leaf types
on a single line often.
See the tests for some examples of what the new output looks like.
Note that this patch actually regresses the functionality of raw mode in
a few areas, but only because the patch was already unreasonably large
and going 100% would have been even worse. Specifically, this patch is
missing:
The ability to dump module debug subsections (checksums, lines, etc)
The ability to dump section headers
Aside from that everything is here. While goign through the tests fixing
them all up, I found many duplicate tests. They've been deleted. In
subsequent patches I will go through and re-add the missing
functionality.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D34191
llvm-svn: 305495
This is to reflect the evolving nature of the tool as being
useful for more than just dumping PDBs, as it can do many other
things.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D34062
llvm-svn: 305106
Reid Kleckner