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.
One extension worth noting is the use of revisions as custom prefixes for
FileCheck. If your codegen test has different behavior based on the chosen
target or different compiler flags that you want to exercise, you can use a
revisions annotation, like so:
After specifying those variations, you can write different expected, or
explicitly unexpected output by using <prefix>-SAME: and <prefix>-NOT:,
like so:
d82219a4fa