The introduction and some examples are on this page:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/announcing-jmc-stepping-in-visual-studio/
The `/JMC` flag enables these instrumentations:
- Insert at the beginning of every function immediately after the prologue with
a call to `void __fastcall __CheckForDebuggerJustMyCode(unsigned char *JMC_flag)`.
The argument for `__CheckForDebuggerJustMyCode` is the address of a boolean
global variable (the global variable is initialized to 1) with the name
convention `__<hash>_<filename>`. All such global variables are placed in
the `.msvcjmc` section.
- The `<hash>` part of `__<hash>_<filename>` has a one-to-one mapping
with a directory path. MSVC uses some unknown hashing function. Here I
used DJB.
- Add a dummy/empty COMDAT function `__JustMyCode_Default`.
- Add `/alternatename:__CheckForDebuggerJustMyCode=__JustMyCode_Default` link
option via ".drectve" section. This is to prevent failure in
case `__CheckForDebuggerJustMyCode` is not provided during linking.
Implementation:
All the instrumentations are implemented in an IR codegen pass. The pass is placed immediately before CodeGenPrepare pass. This is to not interfere with mid-end optimizations and make the instrumentation target-independent (I'm still working on an ELF port in a separate patch).
Reviewed By: hans
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D118428
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