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This patch adds EmitTypeAuxAttribute() function to CGDebugInfo, which allows other parts of clang issue auxiliary information through an enumeration type in Dwarf information. For example, by calling DI->EmitTypeAuxAttribute(type, "ID", 1234); We can get following information in dwarf: <1><3f>: Abbrev N...

> On Aug 18, 2015, at 7:53 AM, Wang Nan via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote: > > This patch adds EmitTypeAuxAttribute() function to CGDebugInfo, which > allows other parts of clang issue auxiliary information through an > enumeration type in Dwarf information. That's a rather unusual mechanism. Can you elaborate what the use-case for this would be and why this should be part of mainline clang? -- adr...