Constructor homing reduces the amount of class type info that is emitted
by emitting conmplete type info for a class only when a constructor for
that class is emitted.
This will mainly reduce the amount of duplicate debug info in object
files. In Chrome enabling ctor homing decreased total build directory sizes
by about 30%.
It's also expected that some class types (such as unused classes)
will no longer be emitted in the debug info. This is fine, since we wouldn't
expect to need these types when debugging.
In some cases (e.g. libc++, https://reviews.llvm.org/D98750), classes
are used without calling the constructor. Since this is technically
undefined behavior, enabling constructor homing should be fine.
However Clang now has an attribute
`__attribute__((standalone_debug))` that can be used on classes to
ignore ctor homing.
Bug: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46537
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D106084
Summary:
-debug-info-kind=constructor reduces the amount of class debug info that
is emitted; this patch switches to using this as the default.
Constructor homing emits the complete type info for a class only when the
constructor is emitted, so it is expected that there will be some classes that
are not defined in the debug info anymore because they are never constructed,
and we shouldn't need debug info for these classes.
I compared the PDB files for clang, and there are 273 class types that are defined with `=limited`
but not with `=constructor` (out of ~60,000 total class types).
We've looked at a number of the types that are no longer defined with =constructor. The vast
majority of cases are something like class A is used as a parameter in a member function of
some other class B, which is emitted. But the function that uses class A is never called, and class A
is never constructed, and therefore isn't emitted in the debug info.
Bug: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46537
Subscribers: aprantl, cfe-commits, lldb-commits
Tags: #clang, #lldb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D79147
Summary:
Added support for the -gline-directives-only option + fixed logic of the
debug info for CUDA devices. If optimization level is O0, then options
--[no-]cuda-noopt-device-debug do not affect the debug info level. If
the optimization level is >O0, debug info options are used +
--no-cuda-noopt-device-debug is used or no --cuda-noopt-device-debug is
used, the optimization level for the device code is kept and the
emission of the debug directives is used.
If the opt level is > O0, debug info is requested +
--cuda-noopt-device-debug option is used, the optimization is disabled
for the device code + required debug info is emitted.
Reviewers: tra, echristo
Subscribers: aprantl, guansong, JDevlieghere, cfe-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D51554
llvm-svn: 348930
Summary:
Some targets support only default set of the debug options and do not
support additional debug options, like NVPTX target. Patch introduced
virtual function supportsDebugInfoOptions() that can be overloaded
by the toolchain, checks if the target supports some debug
options and emits warning when an unsupported debug option is
found.
Reviewers: echristo
Subscribers: aprantl, JDevlieghere, cfe-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D49148
llvm-svn: 338155
Amy Huang