yonghong-song added a comment. For the first example, actually clang is smart enough to remove all dead code, so nothing generated.
[yhs@devbig003.ftw2 ~/tmp/ext_func_var]$ cat t1.c extern void f1(); void f2(void *); inline void f3() { f2(f1); } [yhs@devbig003.ftw2 ~/tmp/ext_func_var]$ clang -target bpf -g -S -emit-llvm t1.c [yhs@devbig003.ftw2 ~/tmp/ext_func_var]$ cat t1.ll ; ModuleID = 't1.c' source_filename = "t1.c" target datalayout = "e-m:e-p:64:64-i64:64-i128:128-n32:64-S128" target triple = "bpf" !llvm.dbg.cu = !{!0} !llvm.module.flags = !{!3, !4, !5} !llvm.ident = !{!6} !0 = distinct !DICompileUnit(language: DW_LANG_C99, file: !1, producer: "clang version 13.0.0 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git 68275c77c92b89fafbacc31b4f40303bb9e0c9a7)", isOptimized: false, runtimeVersion: 0, emissionKind: FullDebug, enums: !2, splitDebugInlining: false, nameTableKind: None) !1 = !DIFile(filename: "t1.c", directory: "/home/yhs/tmp/ext_func_var") !2 = !{} !3 = !{i32 7, !"Dwarf Version", i32 4} !4 = !{i32 2, !"Debug Info Version", i32 3} !5 = !{i32 1, !"wchar_size", i32 4} !6 = !{!"clang version 13.0.0 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git 68275c77c92b89fafbacc31b4f40303bb9e0c9a7)"} [yhs@devbig003.ftw2 ~/tmp/ext_func_var]$ For the second example, [yhs@devbig003.ftw2 ~/tmp/ext_func_var]$ cat t2.c void f1(); int main() { int x = sizeof(&f1); return x; } [yhs@devbig003.ftw2 ~/tmp/ext_func_var]$ clang -target bpf -g -S -emit-llvm t2.c [yhs@devbig003.ftw2 ~/tmp/ext_func_var]$ cat t2.ll ; ModuleID = 't2.c' source_filename = "t2.c" target datalayout = "e-m:e-p:64:64-i64:64-i128:128-n32:64-S128" target triple = "bpf" ; Function Attrs: noinline nounwind optnone define dso_local i32 @main() #0 !dbg !7 { entry: %retval = alloca i32, align 4 %x = alloca i32, align 4 store i32 0, i32* %retval, align 4 call void @llvm.dbg.declare(metadata i32* %x, metadata !11, metadata !DIExpression()), !dbg !12 store i32 8, i32* %x, align 4, !dbg !12 %0 = load i32, i32* %x, align 4, !dbg !13 ret i32 %0, !dbg !14 } ; Function Attrs: nofree nosync nounwind readnone speculatable willreturn declare void @llvm.dbg.declare(metadata, metadata, metadata) #1 attributes #0 = { noinline nounwind optnone "frame-pointer"="all" "min-legal-vector-width"="0" "no-trapping-math"="t rue" "stack-protector-buffer-size"="8" } attributes #1 = { nofree nosync nounwind readnone speculatable willreturn } !llvm.dbg.cu = !{!0} !llvm.module.flags = !{!3, !4, !5} !llvm.ident = !{!6} !0 = distinct !DICompileUnit(language: DW_LANG_C99, file: !1, producer: "clang version 13.0.0 (https://github.com/ll vm/llvm-project.git 68275c77c92b89fafbacc31b4f40303bb9e0c9a7)", isOptimized: false, runtimeVersion: 0, emissionKind: FullDebug, enums: !2, splitDebugInlining: false, nameTableKind: None) !1 = !DIFile(filename: "t2.c", directory: "/home/yhs/tmp/ext_func_var") !2 = !{} !3 = !{i32 7, !"Dwarf Version", i32 4} !4 = !{i32 2, !"Debug Info Version", i32 3} !5 = !{i32 1, !"wchar_size", i32 4} !6 = !{!"clang version 13.0.0 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git 68275c77c92b89fafbacc31b4f40303bb9e0c9a7)"} !7 = distinct !DISubprogram(name: "main", scope: !1, file: !1, line: 2, type: !8, scopeLine: 2, spFlags: DISPFlagDef inition, unit: !0, retainedNodes: !2) !8 = !DISubroutineType(types: !9) !9 = !{!10} !10 = !DIBasicType(name: "int", size: 32, encoding: DW_ATE_signed) !11 = !DILocalVariable(name: "x", scope: !7, file: !1, line: 3, type: !10) !12 = !DILocation(line: 3, column: 7, scope: !7) !13 = !DILocation(line: 4, column: 10, scope: !7) !14 = !DILocation(line: 4, column: 3, scope: !7) The debuginfo for "f1" is not generated for case "sizeof(&f1);". I think it is okay in this case as in most cases, people wants debuginfo only if that pointer ptr appears in generated code. Repository: rG LLVM Github Monorepo CHANGES SINCE LAST ACTION https://reviews.llvm.org/D100567/new/ https://reviews.llvm.org/D100567 _______________________________________________ cfe-commits mailing list cfe-commits@lists.llvm.org https://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cfe-commits