DW_TAG_lexical_scopes inform debuggers about the instruction range for
which a given variable (or imported declaration/module/etc) is valid. If
the scope doesn't itself contain any such entities, it's a waste of
space and should be omitted.
We were correctly doing this for entirely empty leaves, but not for
intermediate nodes.
Reduces total (not just debug sections) .o file size for a bootstrap
-gmlt LLVM by 22% and bootstrap -gmlt clang executable by 13%. The wins
for a full -g build will be less as a % (and in absolute terms), but
should still be substantial - with some of that win being fewer
relocations, thus more substantiall reducing link times than fewer bytes
alone would have.
llvm-svn: 216861
Abstract variables within abstract scopes that are entirely optimized
away in their first inlining are omitted because their scope is not
present so the variable is never created. Instead, we should ensure the
scope is created so the variable can be added, even if it's been
optimized away in its first inlining.
This fixes the incorrect debug info in missing-abstract-variable.ll
(added in r210143) and passes an asserts self-hosting build, so
hopefully there's not more of these issues left behind... *fingers
crossed*.
llvm-svn: 210221
Along with a test case to demonstrate that due to inlining order there
are cases where abstract variable DIEs are not constructed since the
abstract subprogram was built due to a previous inlining that optimized
away those variables. This produces incorrect debug info (the 'missing'
abstract variable causes the inlined instance of that variable to be
emitted with a full description (name, line, file) rather than
referencing the abstract origin), but this commit at least ensures that
it doesn't crash...
llvm-svn: 210143
