Based strictly on the name, this seems to have something to do
width edit & continue. The goal of this patch has nothing to do
with supporting edit and continue though. msvc link.exe writes
very basic information into this area even when *not* compiling
with support for E&C, and so the goal here is to bring lld-link
to parity. Since we cannot know what assumptions standard tools
make about the content of PDB files, we need to be as close as
possible.
This ECNames data structure is a standard PDB string hash table.
link.exe puts a single string into this hash table, which is the
full path to the PDB file on disk. It then references this string
from the module descriptor for the compiler generated `* Linker *`
module.
With this patch, lld-link will generate the exact same sequence of
bytes as MSVC link for this subsection for a given object file
input (as reported by `llvm-pdbutil bytes -ec`).
llvm-svn: 307356
Type records have a unique type index, but symbol records do
not. Instead, symbol records refer to other symbol records
by referencing their offset in the symbol stream. In a sense
this is the analogue of the TypeIndex, but we are not printing
it in the dumper. Printing it not only gives us more useful
information when manually investigating the contents of a PDB,
but also allows us to write better tests by enabling us to
verify that fields that reference other symbol records do
so correctly.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D34906
llvm-svn: 306890
Previously we had the -type-index option which would dump the record of
a single, but we had no way to follow the dependency graph backwards and
also dump all dependent types.
Having this option makes test-writing better, because we can limit the
test to only those records that are of importance for the thing we're
trying to test, which allows us to use things like CHECK-NEXT to reduce
fragility.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D34899
llvm-svn: 306852
This is useful when you want to look at a specific chunk of a
stream or look for discontinuities, and you need to know the
list of blocks occupied by a stream.
llvm-svn: 306150
This idea originally came about when I was doing some deep
investigation of why certain bytes in a PDB that we round-tripped
differed from their original bytes in the source PDB. I found
myself having to hack up the code in many places to dump the
bytes of this substream, or that record. It would be nice if
we could just do this for every possible stream, substream,
debug chunk type, etc.
It doesn't make sense to put this under dump because there's just
so many options that would detract from the more common use case
of just dumping deserialized records. So making a new subcommand
seems like the most logical course of action. In doing so, we
already have two command line options that are suitable for this
new subcommand, so start out by moving them there.
llvm-svn: 306056
Now you run llvm-pdbutil dump <options>. This is a followup
after having renamed the tool, whereas before raw was obviously
just the style of dumping, whereas now "dump" is the action to
perform with the "util".
llvm-svn: 306055
