The search for the complete class definition can also produce entries
which are not of the expected type. This can happen for instance when
there is a function with the same name as the class we're looking up
(which means that the class needs to be disambiguated with the
struct/class tag in most contexts).
Previously we were just picking the first Decl that the lookup returned,
which later caused crashes or assertion failures if it was not of the
correct type. This patch changes that to search for an entry of the
correct type.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D85904
Summary:
This effectively reverts r188124, which added code to handle
(DW_AT_)declarations of structures with some kinds of children as
definitions. The commit message claims this is a workaround for some
kind of debug info produced by gcc. However, it does not go into
specifics, so it's hard to reproduce or verify that this is indeed still a
problem.
Having this code is definitely a problem though, because it mistakenly
declares incomplete dwarf declarations to be complete. Both clang (with
-flimit-debug-info) and gcc (by default) generate DW_AT_declarations of
structs with children. This happens when full debug info for a class is
not emitted in a given compile unit (e.g. because of vtable homing), but
the class has inline methods which are used in the given compile unit.
In that case, the compilers emit a DW_AT_declaration of a class, but
add a DW_TAG_subprogram child to it to describe the inlined instance of
the method.
Even though the class tag has some children, it definitely does not
contain enough information to construct a full class definition (most
notably, it lacks any members). Keeping the class as incomplete allows
us to search for a real definition in other modules, helping the
-flimit-debug-info flow. And in case the definition is not found we can
display a error message saying that, instead of just showing an empty
struct.
Reviewers: clayborg, aprantl, JDevlieghere, shafik
Subscribers: lldb-commits
Tags: #lldb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D83302
With -flimit-debug-info, we can have a definition of a class, but no
definition for some of its members. This extends the same logic we were
using for incomplete base classes to cover incomplete members too.
Test forward-declarations.s is removed as it is no longer applicable --
we don't warn anymore when encountering incomplete members as they could
be completed elsewhere. New checks added to TestLimitDebugInfo cover the
handling of incomplete members more thoroughly.
Summary:
This patch adds support for evaluation of expressions referring to types
which were compiled in -flimit-debug-info (a.k.a -fno-standalone-debug)
in clang. In this mode it's possible that the debug information needed
to fully describe a c++ type is not present in a single shared library
-- for example debug info for a base class or a member of a type can
only be found in another shared library. This situation is not
currently handled well within lldb as we are limited to searching within
a single shared library (lldb_private::Module) when searching for the
definition of these types.
The way that this patch gets around this limitation is by doing the
search at a later stage -- during the construction of the expression ast
context. This works by having the parser (currently SymbolFileDWARF, but
a similar approach is probably needed for PDBs too) mark a type as
"forcefully completed". What this means is that the parser has marked
the type as "complete" in the module ast context (as this is necessary
to e.g. derive classes from it), but its definition is not really there.
This is done via a new field on the ClangASTMetadata struct.
Later, when we are importing such a type into the expression ast, we
check this flag. If the flag is set, we try to find a better definition
for the type in other shared libraries. We do this by initiating a
new lookup for the "forcefully completed" classes, which then imports the
type from a module with a full definition.
This patch only implements this handling for base classes, but other
cases (members, array element types, etc.). The changes for that should
be fairly simple and mostly revolve around marking these types as
"forcefully completed" at an approriate time -- the importing logic is
generic already.
Another aspect, which is also not handled by this patch is viewing these
types via the "frame variable" command. This does not use the AST
importer and so it will need to handle these types on its own -- that
will be the subject of another patch.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D81561
Pavel Labath