rust/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/debuginfo/metadata
Matthew Maurer d82219a4fa debuginfo: Set bitwidth appropriately in enum variant tags
Previously, we unconditionally set the bitwidth to 128-bits, the largest
an discrimnator would possibly be. Then, LLVM would cut down the constant by
chopping off leading zeroes before emitting the DWARF. LLVM only
supported 64-bit descriminators, so this would also have occasionally
resulted in truncated data (or an assert) if more than 64-bits were
used.

LLVM added support for 128-bit enumerators in llvm/llvm-project#125578

That patchset also trusts the constant to describe how wide the variant tag is.
As a result, we went from emitting tags that looked like:
DW_AT_discr_value     (0xfe)

(`form1`)

to emitting tags that looked like:
DW_AT_discr_value	(<0x10> fe ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 )

This makes the `DW_AT_discr_value` encode at the bitwidth of the tag,
which:
1. Is probably closer to our intentions in terms of describing the data.
2. Doesn't invoke the 128-bit support which may not be supported by all
   debuggers / downstream tools.
3. Will result in smaller debug information.
2025-02-12 18:01:42 +00:00
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enums debuginfo: Set bitwidth appropriately in enum variant tags 2025-02-12 18:01:42 +00:00
type_map.rs Use ExistentialTraitRef throughout codegen 2025-01-30 15:34:00 +00:00