experiment(debug): set the language to pascal to get better gdb syntax support#1676
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experiment(debug): set the language to pascal to get better gdb syntax support#1676
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…control The LLVM C API (LLVMDIBuilderCreateCompileUnit) does not expose the NameTableKind parameter, which controls .debug_names accelerator table emission. This adds a C++ wrapper that calls DIBuilder::createCompileUnit directly, allowing us to set NameTableKind::None (matching clang's default) or NameTableKind::Default for opt-in .debug_names emission. The Rust side exposes a safe `create_debug_info()` function that hides all raw pointer handling and transmutes behind a friendly inkwell-typed API.
…ility When compiling multiple ST files with DWARF 5 debug info, each compilation unit gets its own .debug_names table. The linker (lld) concatenates them, but GDB cannot parse concatenated tables and warns: "Section .debug_names length X does not match section length Y" This matches clang's default behavior of setting nameTableKind: None on DICompileUnit. A new --gpubnames CLI flag allows opting back into .debug_names emission when needed (e.g. for lldb-only workflows).
All debug test snapshots now include nameTableKind: None in the DICompileUnit metadata, reflecting the new default behavior.
…t when lowering output assignment (#1657) Co-authored-by: Ghaith Hachem <ghaith.hachem@bachmann.info>
Pascal83 is semantically closer to IEC 61131-3 Structured Text than C, giving us case-insensitive symbol lookup and better type display in GDB as a first step toward proper ST debugging support. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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If we set the gdb language to pascal, it might instruct editors to respect array bounds.
it might also make expressions easier since a lot of the syntax is similar.