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DIVA: Debug Information Visual Analyzer

ARTICLE BY: Phillip Power
POSTED: Jun 15, 2017
TAGS: DWARF, LLVM Developers Meeting, Toolchain

DIVA is a new command line tool that processes DWARF debug information contained within ELF files and prints the semantics of that debug information. The DIVA output is designed with an aim to be understandable by software programmers without any low-level compiler or DWARF knowledge

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Delivering Sample-based PGO for PlayStation(R)4

Users of the PlayStation(R)4 toolchain have a number of expectations from their development tools: good runtime performance is vitally important, as is the ability to debug fully optimized code. The team at Sony Interactive Entertainment have been working on delivering a Profile Guided Optimization solution to our users to allow them to maximize their runtime performance.

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Demo of a repository for statically compiled programs

ARTICLE BY: Paul Bowen-Huggett
POSTED: Nov 17, 2016
TAGS: LLVM, LLVM Developers Meeting, Toolchain

Paul presents a proof of concept of an approach which improves compile and link times by replacing the conventional use of object files with an incrementally updated repository without requiring change to existing build infrastructure. It aims to present the idea at a high-level using a live demo of some trivial tools and initiate discussion of a real implementation within the LLVM framework.

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