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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. |
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The codegen crate contains the code to convert from MIR into LLVM IR,
and then from LLVM IR into machine code. In general it contains code
that runs towards the end of the compilation process.
For more information about how codegen works, see the rustc dev guide.