> On Jun 26, 2018, at 1:38 PM, Zachary Turner <ztur...@google.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 1:28 PM Adrian Prantl <apra...@apple.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> > On Jun 26, 2018, at 11:58 AM, Zachary Turner via llvm-dev 
>>> > <llvm-...@lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>>> > A good example of this would be LLDB’s DWARF parsing code, which is more 
>>> > featureful than LLVM’s but has kind of evolved in parallel.  Sinking this 
>>> > into LLVM would be one early target of such an effort, although over time 
>>> > there would likely be more.
>>> 
>>> As you are undoubtedly aware we've been carefully rearchitecting LLVM's 
>>> DWARF parser over the last few years to eventually become featureful enough 
>>> so that LLDB could use it, so any help on that front would be most welcome. 
>>> As long as we are careful to not regress in performance/lazyness, features 
>>> and fault-tolerance, deduplicating the implementations can only be good for 
>>> LLVM and LLDB.
>>> 
>> Yea, this is the general idea.   Has anyone actively been working on this 
>> specific effort recently?  To my knowledge someone started and then never 
>> finished, but the efforts also never made it upstream, so my understanding 
>> is that it's a goal, but one that nobody has made significant headway on.
> 
That's not true. Greg Clayton started the effort in 2016 and landed many of the 
ground-breaking changes. The design ideas fleshed out during that initial 
effort (thanks to David Blaikie who spent a lot of time reviewing the new 
interfaces!) such as improved error handling where then picked up the entire 
team of contributors who worked on DWARF 5 support in LLVM and we've continued 
down that path ever since. The greatly improved llvm-dwarfdump was also born 
out of this effort, for example. We also payed attention that every refactoring 
of LLDB DWARF parser code would bring it closer to the new LLVM parser 
interface to narrow the gaps between the implementations.

-- adrian

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