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Peter Wortmann authored
Unwind information allows the debugger to discover more information about a program state, by allowing it to "reconstruct" other states of the program. In practice, this means that we explain to the debugger how to unravel stack frames, which comes down mostly to explaining how to find their Sp and Ip register values. * We declare yet another new constructor for CmmNode - and this time there's actually little choice, as unwind information can and will change mid-block. We don't actually make use of these capabilities, and back-end support would be tricky (generate new labels?), but it feels like the right way to do it. * Even though we only use it for Sp so far, we allow CmmUnwind to specify unwind information for any register. This is pretty cheap and could come in useful in future. * We allow full CmmExpr expressions for specifying unwind values. The advantage here is that we don't have to make up new syntax, and can e.g. use the WDS macro directly. On the other hand, the back-end will now have to simplify the expression until it can sensibly be converted into DWARF byte code - a process which might fail, yielding NCG panics. On the other hand, when you're writing Cmm by hand you really ought to know what you're doing. (From Phabricator D169)
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