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Add DWARF for discriminated unions #118
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n Rust, an enum that carries data in the variants is, essentially, a discriminated union. Furthermore, the Rust compiler will perform space optimizations on such enums in some situations. Previously, DWARF for these constructs was emitted using a hack (a magic field name); but this approach stopped working when more space optimizations were added in rust-lang/rust#45225. This patch changes LLVM to allow discriminated unions to be represented in DWARF. It adds createDiscriminatedUnionType and createDiscriminatedMemberType to DIBuilder and then arranges for this to be emitted using DWARF's DW_TAG_variant_part and DW_TAG_variant. Note that DWARF requires that a discriminated union be represented as a structure with a variant part. However, as Rust only needs to emit pure discriminated unions, this is what I chose to expose on DIBuilder. Patch by Tom Tromey! Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D42082 git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@324426 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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Update LLVM to 1c817c7a0c828b8fc8e8e462afbe5db41c7052d1 rust-lang/llvm#118 rust-lang/llvm#119
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[ Note to rust-llvm reviewers: this is a patch that landed upstream already,
as shown by the git-svn-id. It is a prerequisite of the fix for https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/32920 ]
In Rust, an enum that carries data in the variants is, essentially, a
discriminated union. Furthermore, the Rust compiler will perform
space optimizations on such enums in some situations. Previously,
DWARF for these constructs was emitted using a hack (a magic field
name); but this approach stopped working when more space optimizations
were added in rust-lang/rust#45225.
This patch changes LLVM to allow discriminated unions to be
represented in DWARF. It adds createDiscriminatedUnionType and
createDiscriminatedMemberType to DIBuilder and then arranges for this
to be emitted using DWARF's DW_TAG_variant_part and DW_TAG_variant.
Note that DWARF requires that a discriminated union be represented as
a structure with a variant part. However, as Rust only needs to emit
pure discriminated unions, this is what I chose to expose on
DIBuilder.
Patch by Tom Tromey!
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D42082
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@324426 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8