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    [DebugInfo] Add DILabel metadata and intrinsic llvm.dbg.label. · 2c864551
    Shiva Chen authored
    In order to set breakpoints on labels and list source code around
    labels, we need collect debug information for labels, i.e., label
    name, the function label belong, line number in the file, and the
    address label located. In order to keep these information in LLVM
    IR and to allow backend to generate debug information correctly.
    We create a new kind of metadata for labels, DILabel. The format
    of DILabel is
    
    !DILabel(scope: !1, name: "foo", file: !2, line: 3)
    
    We hope to keep debug information as much as possible even the
    code is optimized. So, we create a new kind of intrinsic for label
    metadata to avoid the metadata is eliminated with basic block.
    The intrinsic will keep existing if we keep it from optimized out.
    The format of the intrinsic is
    
    llvm.dbg.label(metadata !1)
    
    It has only one argument, that is the DILabel metadata. The
    intrinsic will follow the label immediately. Backend could get the
    label metadata through the intrinsic's parameter.
    
    We also create DIBuilder API for labels to be used by Frontend.
    Frontend could use createLabel() to allocate DILabel objects, and use
    insertLabel() to insert llvm.dbg.label intrinsic in LLVM IR.
    
    Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D45024
    
    Patch by Hsiangkai Wang.
    
    llvm-svn: 331841
    2c864551
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