This patch enables emitting DWARF `DW_OP_implicit_value` opcode when
tuning debug information for LLDB (`-debugger-tune=lldb`).
This will also propagate to Darwin platforms, since they use LLDB tuning
as a default.
rdar://67406059
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D90001
Signed-off-by: Med Ismail Bennani <medismail.bennani@gmail.com>
This patch was reverted in 7c182663a8 due to some failures
observed on PCC based machines. Failures were due to Endianness issue and
long double representation issues.
Patch is revised to address Endianness issue. Furthermore, support
for emission of `DW_OP_implicit_value` for `long double` has been removed
(since it was unclean at the moment). Planning to handle this in
a clean way soon!
For more context, please refer to following review link.
Reviewed By: aprantl
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D83560
llvm is missing support for DW_OP_implicit_value operation.
DW_OP_implicit_value op is indispensable for cases such as
optimized out long double variables.
For intro refer: DWARFv5 Spec Pg: 40 2.6.1.1.4 Implicit Location Descriptions
Consider the following example:
```
int main() {
long double ld = 3.14;
printf("dummy\n");
ld *= ld;
return 0;
}
```
when compiled with tunk `clang` as
`clang test.c -g -O1` produces following location description
of variable `ld`:
```
DW_AT_location (0x00000000:
[0x0000000000201691, 0x000000000020169b): DW_OP_constu 0xc8f5c28f5c28f800, DW_OP_stack_value, DW_OP_piece 0x8, DW_OP_constu 0x4000, DW_OP_stack_value, DW_OP_bit_piece 0x10 0x40, DW_OP_stack_value)
DW_AT_name ("ld")
```
Here one may notice that this representation is incorrect(DWARF4
stack could only hold integers(and only up to the size of address)).
Here the variable size itself is `128` bit.
GDB and LLDB confirms this:
```
(gdb) p ld
$1 = <invalid float value>
(lldb) frame variable ld
(long double) ld = <extracting data from value failed>
```
GCC represents/uses DW_OP_implicit_value in these sort of situations.
Based on the discussion with Jakub Jelinek regarding GCC's motivation
for using this, I concluded that DW_OP_implicit_value is most appropriate
in this case.
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2020-July/233057.html
GDB seems happy after this patch:(LLDB doesn't have support
for DW_OP_implicit_value)
```
(gdb) p ld
p ld
$1 = 3.14000000000000012434
```
Reviewed By: aprantl
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D83560
This patch was reverted in 9d2da6759b due to assertion failure seen
in `test/DebugInfo/Sparc/subreg.ll`. Assertion failure was happening
due to malformed/unhandeled DwarfExpression.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D83560
Summary:
llvm is missing support for DW_OP_implicit_value operation.
DW_OP_implicit_value op is indispensable for cases such as
optimized out long double variables.
For intro refer: DWARFv5 Spec Pg: 40 2.6.1.1.4 Implicit Location Descriptions
Consider the following example:
```
int main() {
long double ld = 3.14;
printf("dummy\n");
ld *= ld;
return 0;
}
```
when compiled with tunk `clang` as
`clang test.c -g -O1` produces following location description
of variable `ld`:
```
DW_AT_location (0x00000000:
[0x0000000000201691, 0x000000000020169b): DW_OP_constu 0xc8f5c28f5c28f800, DW_OP_stack_value, DW_OP_piece 0x8, DW_OP_constu 0x4000, DW_OP_stack_value, DW_OP_bit_piece 0x10 0x40, DW_OP_stack_value)
DW_AT_name ("ld")
```
Here one may notice that this representation is incorrect(DWARF4
stack could only hold integers(and only up to the size of address)).
Here the variable size itself is `128` bit.
GDB and LLDB confirms this:
```
(gdb) p ld
$1 = <invalid float value>
(lldb) frame variable ld
(long double) ld = <extracting data from value failed>
```
GCC represents/uses DW_OP_implicit_value in these sort of situations.
Based on the discussion with Jakub Jelinek regarding GCC's motivation
for using this, I concluded that DW_OP_implicit_value is most appropriate
in this case.
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2020-July/233057.html
GDB seems happy after this patch:(LLDB doesn't have support
for DW_OP_implicit_value)
```
(gdb) p ld
p ld
$1 = 3.14000000000000012434
```
Reviewed By: aprantl
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D83560
Med Ismail Bennani