Re: [Caml-list] LLVM debug information

[whitequark <whitequark@whitequark.org>]

On 2016-04-22 12:51, picflo_2@web.de wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> thanks for the link seems promising.
> 
> There shouldn't be then any objective to make a pull request to move
> this or a copy of it into the
> llvm/include/llvm-c folder? From there on we could work on the missing
> ocaml bindings

Exposing DIBuilder to llvm-c properly is somewhat complicated and what
you propose was considered and rejected over two years ago. However,
there is ongoing work to bring debug information to LLVM-C and you
may watch it on http://reviews.llvm.org/D19088.

After that's merged the OCaml part is straightforward.

> 
> Best,
> Florian
> 
> GESENDET: Freitag, 22. April 2016 um 10:46 Uhr
> VON: "Ulrich Schöpp" <schoepp@tcs.ifi.lmu.de>
> AN: caml-list@inria.fr
> BETREFF: Re: [Caml-list] LLVM debug information
> Hi,
> 
> have you seen that the go bindings already contain a C wrapper for the
> DIBuilder class?
> 
> https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/blob/master/bindings/go/llvm/DIBuilderBindings.h
> 
> It contains this comment:
> 
> // FIXME: These bindings shouldn't be Go-specific and should
> eventually
> // move to a (somewhat) less stable collection of C APIs for use in
> // creating bindings of LLVM in other languages.
> 
> I would also be interested in OCaml bindings for this.
> 
> Best,
> Ulrich
> 
> On 21/04/16 23:07, picflo_2@web.de wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> at the company I currently work for LLVM is used for the backend of
> a
>> DSL. Since this DSL is missing a debugger
>> i was looking into this topic and what would actually be missing to
> add
>> the required information to use something like
>> lldb or gdb or even link it to the Visual Studio MI Debug Engine to
>> debug the resulting code. If I understand it correctly
>> the OCaml LLVM bindings only give access to the IRBuilder class and
> not
>> the required DIBuilder class? Would it be sufficient
>> to add at first the C wrapper for the DIBuilder class and then the
> OCaml
>> bindings using these C wrapper to add debug information
>> to the offical LLVM repo to start writing a DSL specific debugger
> using
>> OCaml?
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Florian

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