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Object: Have the irsymtab builder take a string table builder. NFCI.
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Authored by pcc on Jun 6 2017, 5:57 PM.

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Summary

This will be needed in order to share the irsymtab string table with
the bitcode string table.

Depends on D33969

Event Timeline

pcc created this revision.Jun 6 2017, 5:57 PM
tejohnson added inline comments.Jun 20 2017, 9:35 PM
llvm/lib/Object/IRSymtab.cpp
52

Why pass in the BumpPtrAllocator as well? I don't see that being shared in this or any follow-on patches?

55

Move this data member up above constructor that now sets it, adjacent to the other members initialized by the constructor.

241

Why this change? We had a StringSaver before, and weren't using it here.

pcc added inline comments.Jun 20 2017, 9:54 PM
llvm/lib/Object/IRSymtab.cpp
52

The BumpPtrAllocator owns any strings that are created by this code. This is necessary because the StringTableBuilder does not take ownership of any strings that are added to it. This change makes it possible for the lifetime of the strings to extend past the lifetime of the Builder.

55

Will do

241

Previously the lifetime of StrtabBuilder was effectively [1] shorter than that of the COFFLinkerOpts string, so StrtabBuilder was able to share ownership of the string with COFFLinkerOpts. Now that StrtabBuilder outlives the string, we need to save it in the StringSaver.

[1] "Effectively" meaning that we were done with StrtabBuilder before returning from build(). Of course StrtabBuilder's actual lifetime was longer because it is a field. I guess we were just getting lucky that its destructor presumably didn't need to access the string.

tejohnson accepted this revision.Jun 21 2017, 7:25 AM

LGTM with the suggested comment and move of the StringSaver declaration.

llvm/lib/Object/IRSymtab.cpp
52

Ok, can you document this on the constructor? It would probably be clearer to have a single data structure that owns all these things that need the same lifetime (the StringTableBuilder, BumpPtrAllocator and possibly the StringSaver for simplicity), but that can be considered for a follow on refactoring.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jun 21 2017, 7:25 AM
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