In order to set breakpoints on labels and list source code around
labels, we need collect debug information for labels, i.e., label
name, the function label belong, line number in the file, and the
address label located. In order to keep these information in LLVM
IR and to allow backend to generate debug information correctly.
We create a new kind of metadata for labels, DILabel. The format
of DILabel is
!DILabel(scope: !1, name: "foo", file: !2, line: 3)
We hope to keep debug information as much as possible even the
code is optimized. So, we create a new kind of intrinsic for label
metadata to avoid the metadata is eliminated with basic block.
The intrinsic will keep existing if we keep it from optimized out.
The format of the intrinsic is
llvm.dbg.label(metadata !1)
It has only one argument, that is the DILabel metadata. The
intrinsic will follow the label immediately. Backend could get the
label metadata through the intrinsic's parameter.
We also create DIBuilder API for labels to be used by Frontend.
Frontend could use createLabel() to allocate DILabel objects, and use
insertLabel() to insert llvm.dbg.label intrinsic in LLVM IR.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D45024
Patch by Hsiangkai Wang.
llvm-svn: 331841
When a function F is inlined, InlineFunction extends the debug location of every
instruction inlined from F by adding an InlinedAt.
However, if an instruction has a 'null' debug location, InlineFunction would
propagate the callsite debug location to it. This behavior existed since
revision 210459.
Revision 210459 was originally committed specifically to workaround the lack of
debug information for instructions inlined from intrinsic functions (which are
usually declared with attributes `__always_inline__, __nodebug__`).
The problem with revision 210459 is that it doesn't make any sort of distinction
between instructions inlined from a 'nodebug' function and instructions which
are inlined from a function built with debug info. This issue may lead to
incorrect stepping in the debugger.
This patch works under the assumption that a nodebug function does not have a
DISubprogram. When a function F is inlined into another function G,
InlineFunction checks if F has debug info associated with it.
For nodebug functions, the InlineFunction logic is unchanged (i.e. it would
still propagate the callsite debugloc to the inlined instructions). Otherwise,
InlineFunction no longer propagates the callsite debug location.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D27462
llvm-svn: 288895
