In cases where the debugger load time is a worthwhile tradeoff (or less
costly - such as loading from a DWP instead of a variety of DWOs
(possibly over a high-latency/distributed filesystem)) against object
file size, it can be reasonable to disable pubnames and corresponding
gdb-index creation in the linker.
A backend-flag version of this was implemented for NVPTX in
D44385/r327994 - which was fine for NVPTX which wouldn't mix-and-match
CUs. Now that it's going to be a user-facing option (likely powered by
"-gno-pubnames", the same as GCC) it should be encoded in the
DICompileUnit so it can vary per-CU.
After this, likely the NVPTX support should be migrated to the metadata
& the previous flag implementation should be removed.
Reviewers: aprantl
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D50213
llvm-svn: 339939
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
Fixes the issue highlighted in
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-dev/2014-June/037500.html.
The DW_AT_decl_file and DW_AT_decl_line attributes on namespaces can
prevent LLVM from uniquing types that are in the same namespace. They
also don't carry any meaningful information.
rdar://problem/17484998
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D32648
llvm-svn: 301706
While looking to add support for placing singular types (types that will
only be emitted in one place (such as attached to a strong vtable or
explicit template instantiation definition)) not in type units (since
type units have overhead) I stumbled across that change causing an
increase in pubtypes.
Turns out we were missing some types from type units if they were only
referenced from other type units and not from the debug_info section.
This fixes that, following GCC's line of describing the offset of such
entities as the CU die (since there's no compile unit-relative offset
that would describe such an entity - they aren't in the CU). Also like
GCC, this change prefers to describe the type stub within the CU rather
than the "just use the CU offset" fallback where possible. This may give
the DWARF consumer some opportunity to find the extra info in the type
stub - though I'm not sure GDB does anything with this currently.
The size of the pubnames/pubtypes sections now match exactly with or
without type units enabled.
This nearly triples (+189%) the pubtypes section for a clang self-host
and grows pubnames by 0.07% (without compression). For a total of 8%
increase in debug info sections of the objects of a Split DWARF build
when using type units.
llvm-svn: 293971
David Blaikie