llvm/lib
Dave Bartolomeo 994a189088 LLVM CodeView library
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


git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@256385 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2015-12-24 18:12:38 +00:00
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Analysis Add a missing const qualifier on the context instruction. This somehow 2015-12-24 09:08:08 +00:00
AsmParser Implemented Support of IA interrupt and exception handlers: 2015-12-21 14:07:14 +00:00
Bitcode Remove overly strict new assert in BitcodeReader. 2015-12-21 15:38:13 +00:00
CodeGen Use range-based for loops. NFC 2015-12-24 05:20:40 +00:00
DebugInfo LLVM CodeView library 2015-12-24 18:12:38 +00:00
ExecutionEngine Delete APIs that have been deprecated since 2010. 2015-12-19 21:42:07 +00:00
Fuzzer [libFuzzer] add AFL-style dictionary for C++, remove the old file with tokens 2015-12-22 01:50:51 +00:00
IR [Function] Properly remove use when clearing personality 2015-12-23 18:27:23 +00:00
IRReader [ThinLTO] Metadata linking for imported functions 2015-12-17 17:14:09 +00:00
LibDriver
LineEditor
Linker Handle empty Subprogram list when linking metadata. 2015-12-22 01:17:19 +00:00
LTO Rename variables to reflect linker split (NFC) 2015-12-18 19:28:59 +00:00
MC Form reform for MCDwarf. 2015-12-23 01:57:31 +00:00
Object Handle archives with paths in the names. 2015-12-18 16:07:17 +00:00
Option Convert Arg, ArgList, and Option to dump() to dbgs() rather than errs(). 2015-12-18 18:55:26 +00:00
Passes [PM] Port StripDeadPrototypes to the new pass manager 2015-10-30 23:28:12 +00:00
ProfileData [ProfileData] Make helper function static. 2015-12-24 10:03:37 +00:00
Support [Support] Allow multiple paired calls to {start,stop}Timer() 2015-12-22 17:36:17 +00:00
TableGen
Target [X86][ms-inline asm] Add support for memory operands that include structs 2015-12-24 12:09:51 +00:00
Transforms [FunctionImport] Move pass into anonymous namespace. 2015-12-24 10:03:35 +00:00
CMakeLists.txt
LLVMBuild.txt
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