We're getting to the point that some MS tools (e.g. DIA) can recognize
our PDBs but others (e.g. link.exe) cannot. I think the way forward is
to improve our tooling to help us find differences more easily. For
example, if we can compile the same program with clang-cl and cl and
have a tool tell us all the places where the PDBs differ, this could
tell us what we're doing wrong. It's tricky though, because there are a
lot of "benign" differences in a PDB. For example, if the string table
in one PDB consists of "foo" followed by "bar" and in the other PDB it
consists of "bar" followed by "foo", this is not necessarily a critical
difference, as long as the uses of these strings also refer to the
correct location. On the other hand, if the second PDB doesn't even
contain the string "foo" at all, this is a critical difference.
diff mode has been in llvm-pdbutil for quite a while, but because of the
above challenge along with some others, it's been hard to make it
useful. I think this patch addresses that. It looks for all the same
things, but it now prints the output in tabular format (carefully
formatted and aligned into tables and fields), and it highlights
critical differences in red, non-critical differences in yellow, and
identical fields in green. This makes it easy to spot the places we
differ, and the general concept of outputting arbitrary fields in
tabular format can be extended to provide analysis into many of the
different types of information that show up in a PDB.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D35039
llvm-svn: 307421
This resubmits commit c0c249e9f2ef83e1d1e5f166b50673d92f3579d7.
It was broken due to some weird template issues, which have
since been fixed.
llvm-svn: 305517
This reverts commit 83ea17ebf2106859a51fbc2a86031b44d33696ad.
This is failing due to some strange template problems, so reverting
until it can be straightened out.
llvm-svn: 305505
After some internal discussions, we agreed that the raw output style had
outlived its usefulness. It was originally created before we had even
thought of dumping to YAML, and it was intended to give us some insight
into the internals of a PDB file. Now we have YAML mode which does
almost exactly this but is more powerful in that it can round-trip back
to a PDB, which the raw mode could not do. So the raw mode had become
purely a maintenance burden.
One option was to just delete it. However, its original goal was to be
as readable as possible while staying close to the "metal" - i.e.
presenting the output in a way that maps directly to the underlying file
format. We don't actually need that last requirement anymore since it's
covered by the yaml mode, so we could repurpose "raw" mode to actually
just be as readable as possible.
This patch implements about 80% of the functionality previously in raw
mode, but in a completely different style that is more akin to what
cvdump outputs. Records are very compressed, often times appearing on
just one line. One nice thing about this is that it makes full record
matching easier, because you can grep for indices, names, and leaf types
on a single line often.
See the tests for some examples of what the new output looks like.
Note that this patch actually regresses the functionality of raw mode in
a few areas, but only because the patch was already unreasonably large
and going 100% would have been even worse. Specifically, this patch is
missing:
The ability to dump module debug subsections (checksums, lines, etc)
The ability to dump section headers
Aside from that everything is here. While goign through the tests fixing
them all up, I found many duplicate tests. They've been deleted. In
subsequent patches I will go through and re-add the missing
functionality.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D34191
llvm-svn: 305495
