Add UNIQUED and DISTINCT properties in Metadata.def and use them to
implement restrictions on the distinct property of MDNodes:
- DIExpression can currently be parsed from IR or read from bitcode as distinct, but this property is silently dropped when printing to IR. This causes accepted IR to fail to round-trip. As DIExpression appears inline at each use in the canonical form of IR, it cannot actually be distinct anyway, as there is no syntax to describe it.
- DICompileUnit is already restricted to always being distinct, but along with adding general support for the inverse restriction I went ahead and described this in Metadata.def and updated the parser to be general. Future nodes which have this restriction can share this support.
The new UNIQUED property applies to DIExpression, and forbids it to be
distinct. It also implies it are canonically printed inline at each
use, rather than via MDNode ID.
The new DISTINCT property applies to DICompileUnit, and requires it to
be distinct.
A potential alternative change is to forbid the non-inline syntax for
DIExpression entirely, as is done with DIArgList implicitly by requiring
it appear in the context of a function. For example, we would forbid:
!named = !{!0} !0 = !DIExpression()
Instead we would only accept the equivalent inlined version:
!named = !{!DIExpression()}
This essentially removes the ability to create a distinct DIExpression
by construction, as there is no syntax for distinct inline. If this
patch is accepted as-is, the result would be that the non-canonical
version is accepted, but the following would be an error and produce a diagnostic:
!named = !{!0} ; error: 'distinct' not allowed for !DIExpression() !0 = distinct !DIExpression()
Also update some documentation to consistently use the inline syntax for
DIExpression, and to describe the restrictions on distinct for nodes
where applicable.
Seems uniqued nodes now are always rendered inline and the other nodes are always rendered using IDs.
May be worth explaining that here since it is now describing these different cases.