In 39b2979a4 Pavel has kindly refined the implementation of a test in such
a way that it doesn't trip up over this patch -- the test wishes to
stimulate LLDBs presentation of line0 locations, rather than wanting to
always step on line-zero on entry to artificial_location.c. As that's what
was tripping up this change, reapply.
Original commit message follows.
[DWARF] Emit a worst-case prologue_end flag for pathological inputs (#107849)
prologue_end usually indicates where the end of the function-initialization
lies, and is where debuggers usually choose to put the initial breakpoint
for a function. Our current algorithm piggy-backs it on the first available
source-location: which doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the
start of the function.
To avoid this in heavily-optimised code that lacks many useful source
locations, pick a worst-case "if all else fails" prologue_end location, of
the first instruction that appears to do meaningful computation. It'll be
given the function-scope line number, which should run-on from the start of
the function anyway. This means if your code is completely inverted by the
optimiser, you can at least put a breakpoint at the _start_ like you
expect, even if it's difficult to then step through.
This patch also attempts to preserve some good behaviour we have without
optimisations -- at O0, if the prologue immediately falls into a loop body
without any computation happening, then prologue_end lands at the start of
that loop. This is desirable; but does mean we need to do more work to
detect and support those situations.
This reverts commit bf483ddb42065405e345393e022dc72357ec5a3a.
See PR, there's a test testing for this behaviour (possibly adaptable), and
a duplicate line entry too
prologue_end usually indicates where the end of the function-initialization
lies, and is where debuggers usually choose to put the initial breakpoint
for a function. Our current algorithm piggy-backs it on the first available
source-location: which doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the
start of the function.
To avoid this in heavily-optimised code that lacks many useful source
locations, pick a worst-case "if all else fails" prologue_end location, of
the first instruction that appears to do meaningful computation. It'll be
given the function-scope line number, which should run-on from the start of
the function anyway. This means if your code is completely inverted by the
optimiser, you can at least put a breakpoint at the _start_ like you
expect, even if it's difficult to then step through.
This patch also attempts to preserve some good behaviour we have without
optimisations -- at O0, if the prologue immediately falls into a loop body
without any computation happening, then prologue_end lands at the start of
that loop. This is desirable; but does mean we need to do more work to
detect and support those situations.
As of rev ea222be0d, LLVMs assembler will actually try to honour the
"fill value" part of p2align directives. X86 printed these as 0x90, which
isn't actually what it wanted: we want multi-byte nops for .text
padding. Compiling via a textual assembly file produces single-byte
nop padding since ea222be0d but the built-in assembler will produce
multi-byte nops. This divergent behaviour is undesirable.
To fix: don't set the byte padding field for x86, which allows the
assembler to pick multi-byte nops. Test that we get the same multi-byte
padding when compiled via textual assembly or directly to object file.
Added same-align-bytes-with-llasm-llobj.ll to that effect, updated
numerous other tests to not contain check-lines for the explicit padding.
This patch makes LLVM emit line 0 source locations for nops emitted as
basic block padding.
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Co-authored-by: Orlando Cazalet-Hyams <orlando.hyams@sony.com>
