This was committed 4 years ago in 108916 with insufficient testing to
explain why the "getTypeAsWritten" case was appropriate. Experience says
that it isn't - the presence or absence of an explicit instantiation
declaration was causing this code to generate either i<int> or i<int,
int>.
That didn't seem to be a useful distinction, and omitting the template
arguments was destructive to debuggers being able to associate the two
types across translation units or across compilers (GCC, reasonably,
never omitted the arguments).
llvm-svn: 205447
We should only have this optimization fire when the explicit
instantiation definition would cause at least one member function to be
emitted, thus ensuring that even a compiler not performing this
optimization would still emit the full type information elsewhere.
But we should also pessimize output still by always emitting the
definition when the explicit instantiation definition appears so that at
some point in the future we can depend on that information even when no
code had to be emitted in that TU. (this shouldn't happen very often,
since people mostly use explicit spec decl/defs to reduce code size -
but perhaps one day they could use it to explicitly reduce debug info
size too)
This was worth about 2% for Clang and LLVM - so not a huge win, but a
win. It looks really great for simple STL programs (include <string> and
just declare a string - 14k -> 1.4k of .dwo)
llvm-svn: 202769
David Blaikie