Hello, All,
This is my first post to this mailing list.
I am currently working on adding debug information generation to the front end of a compiler that uses LLVM. The execution model for the compiled programs is that there are no function calls, and no stack - instead, all called functions are inlined (this is possible as the source language does not permit recursion). However, the inlining is done by the F/E, so that LLVM sees only a single ‘main’ function.
I can see no way of representing this inlining in the metadata being generated by the F/E: the DIBuilder class provides no methods for inlined functions, and the ‘Source Level Debugging with LLVM’ document has very information concerning inlining; e.g. there is this information
“Here !12 is metadata providing location information. It has four fields: line number, column number, scope, and original scope. The original scope represents inline location if this instruction is inlined inside a caller, and is null otherwise. In this example, scope is encoded by !4, a subprogram descriptor. This way the location information attached to the intrinsics indicates that the variable X is declared at line number 2 at a function level scope in function foo.”
in the ‘Object lifetimes and scoping’ section, but little else.
I do not see how to represent the inlining of complete functions in the metadata such that the generated DWARF debug information will contain DIEs with the DW_AT_inline attribute, abstract instances and concrete inlined instances, etc., which will be required to allow a debugger to re-construct a notional function call-chain for any given point in the code.
Does anyone know how to do this?
Regards,
Richard Stuckey