Support dereferencing a DWARF scalar stack value
Swift async functions receive function arguments inside a
heap-allocated data structure, similar to how ObjC block captures or
C++ coroutine arguments are implement. In DWARF they are described
relative to an entry value that produces a pointer into that heap
object. At typical location looks like
DW_OP_entry_value [ DW_OP_reg14 ] DW_OP_deref DW_OP_plus_uconst 32 DW_OP_deref
This allows the unwinder (which has special ABI knowledge to restore
the contents of r14) to push the base address onto the stack thus
allowing the deref/offset operations to continue. The result of the
entry value is a scalar, because DW_OP_reg14 is a register location —
as it should be since we want to restore the pointer value contained
in r14 at the beginning of the function and not the historical memory
contents it was pointing to. The entry value should restore the
address, which is still valid, not the contents at function entry.
To make this work, we need to allow LLDB to dereference Scalar stack
results like load addresses, which is what this patch
does. Unfortunately it is difficult to test this in isolation, since
the DWARFExpression unit test doesn't have a process.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D96549
GitOrigin-RevId: 188b0747c1664d962e94f00b5e3caac529fa1e26
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