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
The function stack poisioner conditionally stores local variables
either in an alloca or in malloc'ated memory, which has the
unfortunate side-effect, that the actual address of the variable is
only materialized when the variable is accessed, which means that
those variables are mostly invisible to the debugger even when
compiling without optimizations.
This patch stores the address of the local stack base into an alloca,
which can be referred to by the debug info and is available throughout
the function. This adds one extra pointer-sized alloca to each stack
frame (but mem2reg can optimize it away again when optimizations are
enabled, yielding roughly the same debug info quality as before in
optimized code).
rdar://problem/30433661
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D41034
llvm-svn: 320415
Shiva Chen