Summary:
The accelerator tables use the debug_str section to store their strings.
However, they do not support the indirect method of access that is
available for the debug_info section (DW_FORM_strx et al.).
Currently our code is assuming that all strings can/will be referenced
indirectly, and puts all of them into the debug_str_offsets section.
This is generally true for regular (unsplit) dwarf, but in the DWO case,
most of the strings in the debug_str section will only be used from the
accelerator tables. Therefore the contents of the debug_str_offsets
section will be largely unused and bloating the main executable.
This patch rectifies this by teaching the DwarfStringPool to
differentiate between strings accessed directly and indirectly. When a
user inserts a string into the pool it has to declare whether that
string will be referenced directly or not. If at least one user requsts
indirect access, that string will be assigned an index ID and put into
debug_str_offsets table. Otherwise, the offset table is skipped.
This approach reduces the overall binary size (when compiled with
-gdwarf-5 -gsplit-dwarf) in my tests by about 2% (debug_str_offsets is
shrunk by 99%).
Reviewers: probinson, dblaikie, JDevlieghere
Subscribers: aprantl, mgrang, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D49493
llvm-svn: 339122
Summary:
This patch makes us generate the debug_names section in response to some
user-facing commands (previously it was only generated if explicitly
selected via the -accel-tables option).
My goal was to make this work for DWARF>=5 (as it's an official part of
that standard), and also, as an extension, for DWARF<5 if one is
explicitly tuning for lldb as a debugger (because it brings a large
performance improvement there).
This is slightly complicated by the fact that the debug_names tables are
incompatible with the DWARF v4 type units (they assume that the type
units are in the debug_info section), and unfortunately, right now we
generate DWARF v4-style type units even for -gdwarf-5. For this reason,
I disable all accelerator tables if the user requested type unit
generation. I do this even for apple tables, as they have the same
problem (in fact generating type units for apple targets makes us crash
even before we get around to emitting the accelerator tables).
Reviewers: JDevlieghere, aprantl, dblaikie, echristo, probinson
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D49420
llvm-svn: 337544
length excluding the table header. Instead it must encode the contribution length minus the length
field itself.
Reviewer: JDevliegehere
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D45922
llvm-svn: 332030
Pavel Labath