There is no situation where this rarely-used argument cannot be
substituted with a DIExpression and removing it allows us to simplify
the DWARF backend. Note that this patch does not yet remove any of
the newly dead code.
rdar://problem/33580047
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D35951
llvm-svn: 309426
For the following motivating example
bool c();
void f();
bool start() {
bool result = c();
if (!c()) {
result = false;
goto exit;
}
f();
result = true;
exit:
return result;
}
we would previously generate a single DW_AT_const_value(1) because
only the DBG_VALUE in the second-to-last basic block survived
codegen. This patch improves the heuristic used to determine when a
DBG_VALUE is available at the beginning of its variable's enclosing
lexical scope:
- Stop giving singular constants blanket permission to take over the
entire scope. There is still a special case for constants in the
function prologue that we also miight want to retire later.
- Use the lexical scope information to determine available-at-entry
instead of proximity to the function prologue.
After this patch we generate a location list with a more accurate
narrower availability for the constant true value. As a pleasant side
effect, we also generate inline locations instead of location lists
where a loacation covers the entire range of the enclosing lexical
scope.
Measured on compiling llc with four targets this doesn't have an
effect on compile time and reduces the size of the debug info for llc
by ~600K.
rdar://problem/30286912
llvm-svn: 305599
Adrian Prantl