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//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
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//
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// File contains classes for implementation of --gdb-index command line option.
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// The -gdb-index option instructs the linker to emit a .gdb_index section.
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// The section contains information to make gdb startup faster.
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// The format of the section is described at
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// https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Index-Section-Format.html.
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//
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// If that option is used, linker should emit a .gdb_index section that allows
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// debugger to locate and read .dwo files, containing neccessary debug
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// information.
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// More information about implementation can be found in DWARF specification,
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// latest version is available at http://dwarfstd.org.
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//
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// .gdb_index section format:
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// (Information is based on/taken from
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// https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Index-Section-Format.html (*))
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//
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// A mapped index consists of several areas, laid out in order:
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// 1) The file header.
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// 2) "The CU (compilation unit) list. This is a sequence of pairs of 64-bit
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// little-endian values, sorted by the CU offset. The first element in each
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// pair is the offset of a CU in the .debug_info section. The second element
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// in each pair is the length of that CU. References to a CU elsewhere in the
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// map are done using a CU index, which is just the 0-based index into this
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// table. Note that if there are type CUs, then conceptually CUs and type CUs
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// form a single list for the purposes of CU indices."(*)
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// 3) The types CU list. Depricated as .debug_types does not appear in the DWARF
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// v5 specification.
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// 4) The address area. The address area is a sequence of address
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// entries, where each entrie contains low address, high address and CU
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// index.
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// 5) "The symbol table. This is an open-addressed hash table. The size of the
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// hash table is always a power of 2. Each slot in the hash table consists of
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// a pair of offset_type values. The first value is the offset of the
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// symbol's name in the constant pool. The second value is the offset of the
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// CU vector in the constant pool."(*)
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// 6) "The constant pool. This is simply a bunch of bytes. It is organized so
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// that alignment is correct: CU vectors are stored first, followed by
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// strings." (*)
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//
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// For constructing the .gdb_index section following steps should be performed:
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// 1) For file header nothing special should be done. It contains the offsets to
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// the areas below.
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// 2) Scan the compilation unit headers of the .debug_info sections to build a
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// list of compilation units.
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// 3) CU Types are no longer needed as DWARF skeleton type units never made it
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// into the standard. lld does nothing to support parsing of .debug_types
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// and generates empty types CU area in .gdb_index section.
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// 4) Address area entries are extracted from DW_TAG_compile_unit DIEs of
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// .debug_info sections.
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// 5) For building the symbol table linker extracts the public names from the
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// .debug_gnu_pubnames and .debug_gnu_pubtypes sections. Then it builds the
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// hashtable in according to .gdb_index format specification.
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// 6) Constant pool is populated at the same time as symbol table.
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//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
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#include "GdbIndex.h"
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