[DebugInfo] Avoid adding too much indirection to pointer-valued variables
This patch addresses PR41675, where a stack-pointer variable is dereferenced
too many times by its location expression, presenting a value on the stack as
the pointer to the stack.
The difference between a stack *pointer* DBG_VALUE and one that refers to a
value on the stack, is currently the indirect flag. However the DWARF backend
will also try to guess whether something is a memory location or not, based
on whether there is any computation in the location expression. By simply
prepending the stack offset to existing expressions, we can accidentally
convert a register location into a memory location, which introduces a
suprise (and unintended) dereference.
The solution is to add DW_OP_stack_value whenever we add a DIExpression
computation to a stack *pointer*. It's an implicit location computed on the
expression stack, thus needs to be flagged as a stack_value.
For the edge case where the offset is zero and the location could be a register
location, DIExpression::prepend will still generate opcodes, and thus
DW_OP_stack_value must still be added.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D63429
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@364736
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