On 06/22/2018 02:39 AM, Richard Biener wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 9:37 PM Jeff Law <l...@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 06/21/2018 11:04 AM, Eric Botcazou wrote:
>>> When code is compiled at -O0, the RTL middle-end makes sure that location
>>> information is preserved as much as possible by generating NOPs with the
>>> location information (goto_locus) present on edges in the CFG, if it thinks
>>> that these edges are the only place where a particular location is 
>>> mentioned.
>>>
>>> The attached patch prevents this from happening in a couple of cases:
>>>  1. if the function has the DECL_IGNORED_P flag set,
>>>  2. if the NOP is emitted by merge_blocks and the 2nd block is a forwarder
>>> block whose outgoing edge has no location, because in this case the location
>>> of the to-be-elided edge is copied onto the aforementioned outgoing edge.
>>>
>>> Tested (GCC and GDB) on x86-64/Linux, applied on the mainline.
>>>
>>>
>>> 2018-06-21  Eric Botcazou  <ebotca...@adacore.com>
>>>
>>>       * cfgrtl.c (fixup_reorder_chain): Do not emit NOPs in DECL_IGNORED_P
>>>       functions.
>>>       (rtl_merge_blocks): Likewise.  Do not emit a NOP if the location of 
>>> the
>>>       edge can be forwarded.
>>>       (cfg_layout_merge_blocks): Likewise.
>> Funny Alex and I were just talking about the need to stuff away debug
>> info on edges for gimple.   Attaching it to gimple nops sounds like a
>> fairly straightforward approach :-)
> 
> But wouldn't that create BBs?  Sounds like you want DEBUG PHIs... :/
We talked about those too :-)

Jeff

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