When the zext gets promoted, it used to retain the original location,
which pessimizes the debugging experience causing an unexpected
jump in stepping at -Og.
Fixes https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46120 (which also
contains a full C repro).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D81437
In order to set breakpoints on labels and list source code around
labels, we need collect debug information for labels, i.e., label
name, the function label belong, line number in the file, and the
address label located. In order to keep these information in LLVM
IR and to allow backend to generate debug information correctly.
We create a new kind of metadata for labels, DILabel. The format
of DILabel is
!DILabel(scope: !1, name: "foo", file: !2, line: 3)
We hope to keep debug information as much as possible even the
code is optimized. So, we create a new kind of intrinsic for label
metadata to avoid the metadata is eliminated with basic block.
The intrinsic will keep existing if we keep it from optimized out.
The format of the intrinsic is
llvm.dbg.label(metadata !1)
It has only one argument, that is the DILabel metadata. The
intrinsic will follow the label immediately. Backend could get the
label metadata through the intrinsic's parameter.
We also create DIBuilder API for labels to be used by Frontend.
Frontend could use createLabel() to allocate DILabel objects, and use
insertLabel() to insert llvm.dbg.label intrinsic in LLVM IR.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D45024
Patch by Hsiangkai Wang.
llvm-svn: 331841
CodeGenPrepare knows how to move a zext of a load into the same basic block
where the load lives. The goal is to help ISel match a zero-extending load
instead of two separated instructions.
CGP attempts to move a zext computation even if it lives in a basic block that
does not post-dominate the load's basic block. That means, the hoisted zext may
be speculated. Preserving the zext location would hurt the debugging experience
and the quality of sample pgo.
With this patch, when moving a zext near to its associated load, CGP no longer
propagates the zext's debug location. Instead, CGP conservatively reuses the
same debug location for the load and the zext.
An alternative approach would be to assign an artificial line-0 location to the
zext. However we don't want to over-use the 'line-0' for this particular case
because it would have a size cost in the line-table section for no additional
benefit.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D25611
llvm-svn: 284377
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