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authorRichard Smith <richard-llvm@metafoo.co.uk>2017-06-02 01:55:39 +0000
committerRichard Smith <richard-llvm@metafoo.co.uk>2017-06-02 01:55:39 +0000
commit146ecad762cb83f8e00d8027188b622c6a8ce15d (patch)
tree17b1d69656572e2a842ac2dcd9ef6dc525b1e290 /docs
parentd4d74154ebb7baf50ad9b9d08c714a961afa59d8 (diff)
Support lazy stat'ing of files referenced by module maps.
This patch adds support for a `header` declaration in a module map to specify certain `stat` information (currently, size and mtime) about that header file. This has two purposes: - It removes the need to eagerly `stat` every file referenced by a module map. Instead, we track a list of unresolved header files with each size / mtime (actually, for simplicity, we track submodules with such headers), and when attempting to look up a header file based on a `FileEntry`, we check if there are any unresolved header directives with that `FileEntry`'s size / mtime and perform deferred `stat`s if so. - It permits a preprocessed module to be compiled without the original files being present on disk. The only reason we used to need those files was to get the `stat` information in order to do header -> module lookups when using the module. If we're provided with the `stat` information in the preprocessed module, we can avoid requiring the files to exist. Unlike most `header` directives, if a `header` directive with `stat` information has no corresponding on-disk file the enclosing module is *not* marked unavailable (so that behavior is consistent regardless of whether we've resolved a header directive, and so that preprocessed modules don't get marked unavailable). We could actually do this for all `header` directives: the only reason we mark the module unavailable if headers are missing is to give a diagnostic slightly earlier (rather than waiting until we actually try to build the module / load and validate its .pcm file). Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D33703 git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/cfe/trunk@304515 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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diff --git a/docs/Modules.rst b/docs/Modules.rst
index 7bd2adf8af..ed6f817157 100644
--- a/docs/Modules.rst
+++ b/docs/Modules.rst
@@ -469,9 +469,16 @@ A header declaration specifies that a particular header is associated with the e
.. parsed-literal::
*header-declaration*:
- ``private``:sub:`opt` ``textual``:sub:`opt` ``header`` *string-literal*
- ``umbrella`` ``header`` *string-literal*
- ``exclude`` ``header`` *string-literal*
+ ``private``:sub:`opt` ``textual``:sub:`opt` ``header`` *string-literal* *header-attrs*:sub:`opt`
+ ``umbrella`` ``header`` *string-literal* *header-attrs*:sub:`opt`
+ ``exclude`` ``header`` *string-literal* *header-attrs*:sub:`opt`
+
+ *header-attrs*:
+ '{' *header-attr** '}'
+
+ *header-attr*:
+ ``size`` *integer-literal*
+ ``mtime`` *integer-literal*
A header declaration that does not contain ``exclude`` nor ``textual`` specifies a header that contributes to the enclosing module. Specifically, when the module is built, the named header will be parsed and its declarations will be (logically) placed into the enclosing submodule.
@@ -504,6 +511,18 @@ A header with the ``exclude`` specifier is excluded from the module. It will not
A given header shall not be referenced by more than one *header-declaration*.
+Two *header-declaration*\s, or a *header-declaration* and a ``#include``, are
+considered to refer to the same file if the paths resolve to the same file
+and the specified *header-attr*\s (if any) match the attributes of that file,
+even if the file is named differently (for instance, by a relative path or
+via symlinks).
+
+.. note::
+ The use of *header-attr*\s avoids the need for Clang to speculatively
+ ``stat`` every header referenced by a module map. It is recommended that
+ *header-attr*\s only be used in machine-generated module maps, to avoid
+ mismatches between attribute values and the corresponding files.
+
Umbrella directory declaration
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
An umbrella directory declaration specifies that all of the headers in the specified directory should be included within the module.