CodeView, like most other debug formats, represents the live range of a
variable so that debuggers might print them out.
They use a variety of records to represent how a particular variable
might be available (in a register, in a frame pointer, etc.) along with
a set of ranges where this debug information is relevant.
However, the format only allows us to use ranges which are limited to a
maximum of 0xF000 in size. This means that we need to split our debug
information into chunks of 0xF000.
Because the layout of code is not known until *very* late, we must use a
new fragment to record the information we need until we can know
*exactly* what the range is.
llvm-svn: 259868
This reverts commit r259117.
The LineInfo constructor is defined in the codeview library and we have
to link against it now. Doing that isn't trivial, so reverting for now.
llvm-svn: 259126
Adds a new family of .cv_* directives to LLVM's variant of GAS syntax:
- .cv_file: Similar to DWARF .file directives
- .cv_loc: Similar to the DWARF .loc directive, but starts with a
function id. CodeView line tables are emitted by function instead of
by compilation unit, so we needed an extra field to communicate this.
Rather than overloading the .loc direction further, we decided it was
better to have our own directive.
- .cv_stringtable: Emits the codeview string table at the current
position. Currently this just contains the filenames as
null-terminated strings.
- .cv_filechecksums: Emits the file checksum table for all files used
with .cv_file so far. There is currently no support for emitting
actual checksums, just filenames.
This moves the line table emission code down into the assembler. This
is in preparation for implementing the inlined call site line table
format. The inline line table format encoding algorithm requires knowing
the absolute code offsets, so it must run after the assembler has laid
out the code.
David Majnemer collaborated on this patch.
llvm-svn: 259117
Binary annotations are encoded along the lines of UTF-8 and ECI but with
a few minor differences.
The algorithm specified in "ECMA-335 CLI Section II.3.2 - Blobs and
Signatures" is used to compress binary annotations. Signed binary
annotations are encoded like unsigned annotations except the sign bit is
rotated left to reduce the number of bits needed to be encoded.
llvm-svn: 257742
Moves some .def files into include/DebugInfo/CodeView.
Aslo remove a 'using namespace' directive from a header in readobj and
update the uses of the endian helper types to compensate.
llvm-svn: 257712
This rewrites and expands the existing codeview dumping functionality in
llvm-readobj using techniques similar to those in lib/Object. This defines a
number of new records and enums useful for reading memory mapped codeview
sections in COFF objects.
The dumper is intended as a testing tool for LLVM as it grows more codeview
output capabilities.
Reviewers: majnemer
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D16104
llvm-svn: 257658
Summary: This diff is the initial implementation of the LLVM CodeView library. There is much more work to be done, namely a CodeView dumper and tests. This patch should help others make progress on the LLVM->CodeView debug info emission while I continue with the implementation of the dumper and tests.
This library implements support for emitting debug info in the CodeView format. This phase of the implementation only includes support for CodeView type records. Clients that need to emit type records will use a class derived from TypeTableBuilder. TypeTableBuilder provides member functions for writing each kind of type record; each of these functions eventually calls the writeRecord virtual function to emit the actual bits of the record. Derived classes override writeRecord to implement the folding of duplicate records and the actual emission to the appropriate destination. LLVMCodeView provides MemoryTypeTableBuilder, which creates the table in memory. In the future, other classes derived from TypeTableBuilder will write to other destinations, such as the type stream in a PDB.
The rest of the types in LLVMCodeView define the actual CodeView type records and all of the supporting enums and other types used in the type records. The TypeIndex class is of particular interest, because it is used by clients as a handle to a type in the type table.
The library provides a relatively low-level interface based on the actual on-disk format of CodeView. For example, type records refer to other type records by TypeIndex, rather than by an actual pointer to the referent record. This allows clients to emit type records one at a time, rather than having to keep the entire transitive closure of type records in memory until everything has been emitted. At some point, having a higher-level interface layered on top of this one may be useful for debuggers and other tools that want a more holistic view of the debug info. The lower-level interface should be sufficient for compilers and linkers to do the debug info manipulation that they need to do efficiently.
Reviewers: rnk, majnemer
Subscribers: silvas, rnk, jevinskie, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D14961
llvm-svn: 256385
