In order to set breakpoints on labels and list source code around
labels, we need collect debug information for labels, i.e., label
name, the function label belong, line number in the file, and the
address label located. In order to keep these information in LLVM
IR and to allow backend to generate debug information correctly.
We create a new kind of metadata for labels, DILabel. The format
of DILabel is
!DILabel(scope: !1, name: "foo", file: !2, line: 3)
We hope to keep debug information as much as possible even the
code is optimized. So, we create a new kind of intrinsic for label
metadata to avoid the metadata is eliminated with basic block.
The intrinsic will keep existing if we keep it from optimized out.
The format of the intrinsic is
llvm.dbg.label(metadata !1)
It has only one argument, that is the DILabel metadata. The
intrinsic will follow the label immediately. Backend could get the
label metadata through the intrinsic's parameter.
We also create DIBuilder API for labels to be used by Frontend.
Frontend could use createLabel() to allocate DILabel objects, and use
insertLabel() to insert llvm.dbg.label intrinsic in LLVM IR.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D45024
Patch by Hsiangkai Wang.
llvm-svn: 331841
When the Constant Hoisting pass moves expensive constants into a
common block, it would assign a debug location equal to the last use
of that constant. While this is certainly intuitive, it places the
constant in an out-of-order location, according to the debug location
information. This produces out-of-order stepping when debugging
programs affected by this pass.
This patch creates in-order stepping behavior by merging the debug
locations for hoisted constants, and the new insertion point.
Patch by Matthew Voss!
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D38088
llvm-svn: 317827
Shiva Chen