> On Dec 15, 2015, at 2:37 PM, Joe Groff <jgr...@apple.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Dec 15, 2015, at 2:34 PM, Adrian Prantl <apra...@apple.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Dec 15, 2015, at 2:27 PM, Joe Groff <jgr...@apple.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Dec 15, 2015, at 1:25 PM, Adrian Prantl <apra...@apple.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Dec 10, 2015, at 10:19 AM, John McCall <rjmcc...@apple.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Dec 10, 2015, at 8:31 AM, Joe Groff via swift-dev 
>>>>>> <swift-dev@swift.org> wrote:
>>>>>>> On Dec 9, 2015, at 4:15 PM, Adrian Prantl via swift-dev 
>>>>>>> <swift-dev@swift.org> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> In order to write textual SIL -> SIL testcases that exercise the 
>>>>>>> handling of debug information by SIL passes, we need to make a couple 
>>>>>>> of additions to the textual SIL language. In memory, the debug 
>>>>>>> information attached to SIL instructions references information from 
>>>>>>> the AST. If we want to create debug info from parsing a textual .sil 
>>>>>>> file, these bits need to be made explicit.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Let me illustrate this with an example. The function
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> func foo(x : Int) -> Int {
>>>>>>>> return bar(x)
>>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> is compiled to SIL as 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> // main.foo (Swift.Int) -> Swift.Int
>>>>>>>> sil hidden @_TF4main3fooFSiSi : $@convention(thin) (Int) -> Int {
>>>>>>>> // %0                                             // users: %1, %2, %4
>>>>>>>> bb0(%0 : $Int):
>>>>>>>> debug_value %0 : $Int  // let x, argno: 1       // id: %1 
>>>>>>>> line:1:10:in_prologue
>>>>>>>> return %4 : $Int                                // id: %5 
>>>>>>>> line:2:3:return
>>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Note that there is a bunch of information available in comments that 
>>>>>>> will be lost once we parse that textual SIL again. I’d like to add 
>>>>>>> syntax to SIL for the information in the comments. This proposal deals 
>>>>>>> with lifting the debug variable information (the first comment) into 
>>>>>>> actual SIL syntax. A similar proposal for locations will be coming soon.
>>>>>>> With the proposed syntax, this could like like:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> sil hidden @_TF4main3fooFSiSi : $@convention(thin) (Int) -> Int {
>>>>>>>> bb0(%0 : $Int):
>>>>>>>> debug_value %0 : $Int, !dbg_var(name: "x", type: "_TTSi", argno: 1)
>>>>>>>> return %4 : $Int
>>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> More formally, debug variable info may be attached to debug_value, 
>>>>>>> debug_value_addr, alloc_box, and alloc_stack instructions.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> sil-instruction ::= 'alloc_stack' sil-type dbg-var
>>>>>>> sil-instruction ::= 'alloc_stack' sil-type dbg-var
>>>>>>> sil-instruction ::= debug_value sil-operand dbg-var
>>>>>>> sil-instruction ::= debug_value_addr sil-operand dbg-var
>>>>>>> dbg-var ::= ‘!dbg_var’ ‘(‘ var-attr (',' var-attr)*) ‘)'
>>>>>>> var-attr ::= ‘name:’ string-literal
>>>>>>> var-attr ::= ’type:’ string-literal
>>>>>>> var-attr ::= ‘argno:’ integer-literal
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> This syntax for `dbg-var` is borrowed straight from LLVM IR and thus 
>>>>>>> invokes a familiar feeling. Since the primary use-case of it will be in 
>>>>>>> test cases, the verbose dictionary-like syntax is really helpful.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Syntax alternatives I’ve considered and rejected include:
>>>>>>> 1. debug_value %0 : $Int, “x”, “_TtSi”, 1
>>>>>>> Why: Hard to read, potentially ambiguous because some fields are 
>>>>>>> optional.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 2. debug_value [name “x”] [type “_TtSi”] [argno 1] %0 : $Int
>>>>>>> Why: Attributes in square brackets don’t typically have arguments and 
>>>>>>> come before the entity they are modifying.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 3. debug_value @var(name: “x”, type: “_TtSi”, argno: 1) %0 : $Int
>>>>>>> Why: The ‘@‘ sigil is used not just for attributes but also for global 
>>>>>>> symbols and thus creates an ambiguity.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks for working on this, Adrian! My thoughts:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> - I don't see a reason to mangle the type name at SIL time. You should 
>>>>>> reference the formal AST type directly in the instruction, and print and 
>>>>>> parse it using the normal (Swift) type parser.
>>>>> 
>>>>> In addition to all the other good reasons to do this, this means that 
>>>>> archetypes in the type will be (1) sensibly bound in the context and (2) 
>>>>> actually substituted by inlining and generic specialization.
>>>> 
>>>> By deferring the type mangling to IRGen time I’m hitting an interesting 
>>>> problem:
>>>> 
>>>> Let’s say we have the function
>>>> func id<T>(x : T) -> T { return x }
>>>> 
>>>> which is translated to SIL as
>>>> 
>>>>> func id<T>(x: T) -> T // FuncDecl
>>>>> 
>>>>> // declcontext.id <A> (A) -> A
>>>>> sil hidden @_TF11declcontext2idurFxx : $@convention(thin) <T> (@out T, 
>>>>> @in T) -> () {
>>>>> bb0(%0 : $*T, %1 : $*T):
>>>>> debug_value_addr %1 : $*T, let, name "x", argno 1
>>>>> copy_addr [take] %1 to [initialization] %0 : $*T
>>>>> %4 = tuple ()                                   
>>>>> return %4 : $()                                 
>>>>> }
>>>> 
>>>> When emitting debug info for “x” we need to determine the mangled name of 
>>>> “T”. Since T is an archetype, the Mangler needs its DeclContext. In a 
>>>> compilation from source the DeclContext is readily available and the 
>>>> FuncDecl itself.
>>>> However, when parsing this from SIL it is unclear how to match up the 
>>>> SILFunction with the FuncDecl to establish the DeclContext for the 
>>>> Mangler. It would be possible to demangle the SILFunction’s name and then 
>>>> look up the FuncDecl by name in the SwiftModule and then filter the lookup 
>>>> results by type. But this filtering would not work after function 
>>>> signature optimizations.
>>>> Another option is to explicitly call out the DeclContext by adding a 
>>>> sil-decl-ref attribute, like this:
>>>> 
>>>>> debug_value_addr %1 : $*T, let, name "x", argno 1, declctx #id!1
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> But it looks like sil-decl-refs also aren’t expressive enough to 
>>>> distinguish between foo() / foo(x:Int) / foo<T>(x:T).
>>>> 
>>>> Am I missing something obvious?
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Don't SILFunctions already reference a context ValueDecl for debug purposes?
>> 
>> If you’re refering to SILFunction::getDeclContext() this field is only 
>> populated by the regular SILGen path. ParseSIL does not (yet) do this. I ran 
>> into the above problem while trying to set the DeclContext of SILFunctions 
>> that are created by ParseSIL.cpp.
> 
> We could add some syntax to the sil function syntax to reference the debug 
> DeclContext. I wouldn't try to demangle the name to guess what it's supposed 
> to be.
> 

Here are a couple of horrible ideas how this could be done:


1. Extend sil-decl-ref to allow specifying a type:
   Grammar:
       sil-function ::= 'sil' sil-linkage? sil-function-name ':' sil-type
                        ‘declcontext’ sil-decl-ref
                        '{' sil-basic-block+ '}'
   Example:

   // Decl
   func foo<T>(i : Int) -> T

   // SIL function + DeclContextRef
   sil @_TF4test3foo... : $@convention(thin) <T> (@out T, @in T) -> () 
declcontext test.foo$<T>(Int) -> (T) {

2. Extend ValueDecls in .sil files with a unique id
   Example:

   // Decl + ID
   func foo() #1

   // SIL function + DeclContextRef
   sil @_TF4test3foo... : $... declcontext #1 {

3. Extend ValueDecls with a unique id that happens to be its mangled/silgen name
   Example:

   // Decl + ID
   @_silgen_name("@_TF4test3foo...”) func foo()
   // SIL function + DeclContextRef
   sil @_TF4test3foo... : $... declcontext @_TF4test3foo... {

I personally lean towards something along the lines of option 1. What do you 
think?

-- adrian

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