rust/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm
bors 9a757817c3 Auto merge of #89597 - michaelwoerister:improve-vtable-debuginfo, r=wesleywiser
Create more accurate debuginfo for vtables.

Before this PR all vtables would have the same name (`"vtable"`) in debuginfo. Now they get an unambiguous name that identifies the implementing type and the trait that is being implemented.

This is only one of several possible improvements:
- This PR describes vtables as arrays of `*const u8` pointers. It would nice to describe them as structs where function pointer is represented by a field with a name indicative of the method it maps to. However, this requires coming up with a naming scheme that avoids clashes between methods with the same name (which is possible if the vtable contains multiple traits).
- The PR does not update the debuginfo we generate for the vtable-pointer field in a fat `dyn` pointer. Right now there does not seem to be an easy way of getting ahold of a vtable-layout without also knowing the concrete self-type of a trait object.

r? `@wesleywiser`
2021-10-11 04:31:47 +00:00
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src Auto merge of #89597 - michaelwoerister:improve-vtable-debuginfo, r=wesleywiser 2021-10-11 04:31:47 +00:00
Cargo.toml Remove re-export. 2021-10-03 16:08:54 +02:00
README.md mv compiler to compiler/ 2020-08-30 18:45:07 +03:00

The codegen crate contains the code to convert from MIR into LLVM IR, and then from LLVM IR into machine code. In general it contains code that runs towards the end of the compilation process.

For more information about how codegen works, see the rustc dev guide.