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Unverified Commit 2298a44c authored by Tobias Hieta's avatar Tobias Hieta
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[CodeView] Add support for local S_CONSTANT records

CodeView doesn't have the ability to represent variables
in other ways than as in registers or memory values, but
LLVM very often transforms simple values into constants,
consider this program:

int f () { int i = 123; return i; }

LLVM will transform `i` into a constant value and just
leave behind a llvm.dbg.value, this can't be represented
as a S_LOCAL record in CodeView. But we can represent it
as a S_CONSTANT record.

This patch checks if the location of a debug value is null,
then we will insert a S_CONSTANT record instead of a S_LOCAL
value with the flag "OptimizedAway".

In lld we then output the S_CONSTANT in the right scope, before
they where always inserted in the global stream, now we check
the scope before inserting it.

This has shown to improve debugging for our developers
internally.

Fixes to llvm/llvm-project#55958

Reviewed By: aganea

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D138995
parent 5b22c512
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