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Commit e699dfaa authored by Jonas Devlieghere's avatar Jonas Devlieghere
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[NFC] Refactor Apple Accelerator Tables

This patch refactors the way data is stored in the accelerator table and
makes them truly generic. There have been several attempts to do this in
the past:

 - D8215 & D8216: Using a union and partial hardcoding.
 - D11805: Using inheritance.
 - D42246: Using a callback.

In the end I didn't like either of them, because for some reason or
another parts of it felt hacky or decreased runtime performance. I
didn't want to completely rewrite them as I was hoping that we could
reuse parts for the successor in the DWARF standard. However, it seems
less and less likely that there will be a lot of opportunities for
sharing code and/or an interface.

Originally I choose to template the whole class, because it introduces
no performance overhead compared to the original implementation.

We ended up settling on a hybrid between a templated method and a
virtual call to emit the data. The motivation is that we don't want to
increase code size for a feature that should soon be superseded by the
DWARFv5 accelerator tables. While the code will continue to be used for
compatibility, it won't be on the hot path. Furthermore this does not
regress performance compared to Apple's internal implementation that
already uses virtual calls for this.

A quick summary for why these changes are necessary: dsymutil likes to
reuse the current implementation of the Apple accelerator tables.
However, LLDB expects a slightly different interface than what is
currently emitted. Additionally, in dsymutil we only have offsets and no
actual DIEs.

Although the patch suggests a lot of code has changed, this change is
pretty straightforward:

 - We created an abstract class `AppleAccelTableData` to serve as an
   interface for the different data classes.
 - We created two implementations of this class, one for type tables and
   one for everything else. There will be a third one for dsymutil that
   takes just the offset.
 - We use the supplied class to deduct the atoms for the header which
   makes the structure of the table fully self contained, although not
   enforced by the interface as was the case for the fully templated
   approach.
 - We renamed the prefix from DWARF- to Apple- to make space for the
   future implementation of .debug_names.

This change is NFC and relies on the existing tests.

Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D42334

llvm-svn: 323653
parent cec6335f
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