The bitcode reading interface used std::error_code to report an error to the
callers and it is the callers job to print diagnostics.
This is not ideal for error handling or diagnostic reporting:
* For error handling, all that the callers care about is 3 possibilities:
* It worked
* The bitcode file is corrupted/invalid.
* The file is not bitcode at all.
* For diagnostic, it is user friendly to include far more information
about the invalid case so the user can find out what is wrong with the
bitcode file. This comes up, for example, when a developer introduces a
bug while extending the format.
The compromise we had was to have a lot of error codes.
With this patch we use the DiagnosticHandler to communicate with the
human and std::error_code to communicate with the caller.
This allows us to have far fewer error codes and adds the infrastructure to
print better diagnostics. This is so because the diagnostics are printed when
he issue is found. The code that detected the problem in alive in the stack and
can pass down as much context as needed. As an example the patch updates
test/Bitcode/invalid.ll.
Using a DiagnosticHandler also moves the fatal/non-fatal error decision to the
caller. A simple one like llvm-dis can just use fatal errors. The gold plugin
needs a bit more complex treatment because of being passed non-bitcode files. An
hypothetical interactive tool would make all bitcode errors non-fatal.
llvm-svn: 225562
The non-opaque part can be structurally uniqued. To keep this to just
a hash lookup, we don't try to unique cyclic types.
Also change the type mapping algorithm to be optimistic about a type
not being recursive and only create a new type when proven to be wrong.
This is not as strong as trying to speculate that we can keep the source
type, but is simpler (no speculation to revert) and more powerfull
than what we had before (we don't copy non-recursive types at least).
I initially wrote this to try to replace the name based type merging.
It is not strong enough to replace it, but is is a useful addition.
With this patch the number of named struct types is a clang lto bootstrap goes
from 49674 to 15986.
llvm-svn: 223278
The explicit set of destination types is not fully redundant when lazy loading
since the TypeFinder will not find types used only in function bodies.
This keeps the logic to drop the name of mapped types since it still helps
with avoiding further renaming.
llvm-svn: 223043
Instead of keeping an explicit set, just drop the names of types we choose
to map to some other type.
This has the advantage that the name of the unused will not cause the context
to rename types on module read.
llvm-svn: 222986
I noticed that it was untested, and forcing it on caused some tests to fail:
LLVM :: Linker/metadata-a.ll
LLVM :: Linker/prefixdata.ll
LLVM :: Linker/type-unique-odr-a.ll
LLVM :: Linker/type-unique-simple-a.ll
LLVM :: Linker/type-unique-simple2-a.ll
LLVM :: Linker/type-unique-simple2.ll
LLVM :: Linker/type-unique-type-array-a.ll
LLVM :: Linker/unnamed-addr1-a.ll
LLVM :: Linker/visibility1.ll
If it is to be resurrected, it has to be fixed and we should probably have a
-preserve-source command line option in llvm-mc and run tests with and without
it.
llvm-svn: 220741
This new IR facility allows us to represent the object-file semantic of
a COMDAT group.
COMDATs allow us to tie together sections and make the inclusion of one
dependent on another. This is required to implement features like MS
ABI VFTables and optimizing away certain kinds of initialization in C++.
This functionality is only representable in COFF and ELF, Mach-O has no
similar mechanism.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D4178
llvm-svn: 211920
