On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 2:01 AM, Pavel Labath via lldb-commits <lldb-commits@lists.llvm.org> wrote: > On 10 January 2018 at 22:51, Greg Clayton <clayb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The right solution seems to be adding some sort of custom GNU ABI tag to the >> DWARF. I know that won't help with existing binaries, but it sounds too >> expensive to set the ASM name for everything. >> > > What makes you think it will be expensive? I don't know much about > clang internals, but I think something has to provide a mangled name > in any case. So, if we don't specify a mangled name, clang will have > to do the mangling itself. For all I know, setting the asm attribute > may actually speed things up, as clang could avoid doing some extra > work. > > I think it would be interesting to try to measure the > performance/memory footprint impact of just setting the asm attribute > everywhere. >
Indeed. If somebody has the time to put into this I think it's something worth benchmarking before declaring victory (or defeat). Thanks, -- Davide _______________________________________________ lldb-commits mailing list lldb-commits@lists.llvm.org http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lldb-commits
