This change simplifies code that has to deal with
DIGlobalVariableExpression and mirrors how we treat DIExpressions in
debug info intrinsics. Before this change there were two ways of
representing empty expressions on globals, a nullptr and an empty
!DIExpression().
If someone needs to upgrade out-of-tree testcases:
perl -pi -e 's/(!DIGlobalVariableExpression\(var: ![0-9]*)\)/\1, expr: !DIExpression())/g' <MYTEST.ll>
will catch 95%.
llvm-svn: 312144
!type metadata can not be dropped. An alternative to this is adding
!type metadata from the replaced globals to the replacement, but that
may weaken type tests and make them slower at the same time.
The merged global gets !dbg metadata from replaced globals, and can
end up with multiple debug locations.
llvm-svn: 297327
Adrian Prantl