Currently each Function points to a DISubprogram and DISubprogram has a
scope field. For member functions the scope is a DICompositeType. DIScopes
point to the DICompileUnit to facilitate type uniquing.
Distinct DISubprograms (with isDefinition: true) are not part of the type
hierarchy and cannot be uniqued. This change removes the subprograms
list from DICompileUnit and instead adds a pointer to the owning compile
unit to distinct DISubprograms. This would make it easy for ThinLTO to
strip unneeded DISubprograms and their transitively referenced debug info.
Motivation
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Materializing DISubprograms is currently the most expensive operation when
doing a ThinLTO build of clang.
We want the DISubprogram to be stored in a separate Bitcode block (or the
same block as the function body) so we can avoid having to expensively
deserialize all DISubprograms together with the global metadata. If a
function has been inlined into another subprogram we need to store a
reference the block containing the inlined subprogram.
Attached to https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=27284 is a python script
that updates LLVM IR testcases to the new format.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D19034
<rdar://problem/25256815>
llvm-svn: 266446
Sample-based profiling and optimization remarks currently remove
DICompileUnits from llvm.dbg.cu to suppress the emission of debug info
from them. This is somewhat of a hack and only borderline legal IR.
This patch uses the recently introduced NoDebug emission kind in
DICompileUnit to achieve the same result without breaking the Verifier.
A nice side-effect of this change is that it is now possible to combine
NoDebug and regular compile units under LTO.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D18808
<rdar://problem/25427165>
llvm-svn: 265861
Adrian Prantl