On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Adrian Prantl <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Eric,
>
> On Apr 8, 2013, at 1:23 PM, Eric Christopher <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> So, since you didn't respond to the rest, these are the similar bugs I
>> was speaking about:
>>
>> http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=14498
>> http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=14580
>>
>> with a little bit due to:
>>
>> http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=14610
>> http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=14473
>
> Great! I was hesitant to answer to the rest before I knew more about those 
> PRs :-)
>
>>
>> Before we go forward with this I'd like to discuss the general
>> applicability here for line information.
>
> Sure. My argument for the ARC case is that there is no sensible source line 
> to associate calls to ARC runtime functions (that are mostly transparent to 
> the programmer) with.
>
> For the ARC setup code it may be possible to use the location of the 
> beginning of the lexical scope. I’m not convinced about the cleanup part, 
> though. Do we really want to step through
>
> 1 void foo() {
> 2    return 1;
> 3 }
>
> in the order 1-3-2 ? (And right now it would be 3-2-3, which is even worse).
>
> The situation is perhaps less clear if the return statement is missing.
> According to http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=14498, GCC does create an 
> entry for the last line, but at least the lines are visited consecutively. 
> (Is that also true if there is a complex expression in the return?)

Generally GCC seems to emit the return expression on the line its
written, but the return instruction on the close }.

>
> My personal opinion would be to not emit line info if we don’t have anything 
> to point to in the source code -- it might even reduce the size of our debug 
> info.
> Of course, not breaking the gdb testsuite would be a good argument against 
> it. I don’t think that this would be the case for ARC, though.
>
>> Few notes on the patch:
>
> I made all suggested changes, thanks for the review!
>
> -- Adrian

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