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[llvm/DWARF] Recursively resolve DW_AT_signature references (llvm#97423)
findRecursively follows DW_AT_specification and DW_AT_abstract_origin references, but not DW_AT_signature. As far as I can tell, there is no fundamental difference between these attributes that would make this behavior desirable, and this just seems like a consequence of the fact that this attribute is newer. This patch aims to change that. The motivation is some code in lldb, which assumes that it can construct a qualified name of a type by just walking the parent chain and looking at the name attribute. This works for "regular" debug info, even when some of the DIEs are just forward declarations, but it breaks in the presence of type units, because of the need to explicitly resolve the signature reference. While LLDB does not use the llvm's DWARFDie class (yet?), this seems like a very important change in the overall API, and any divergence here would complicate eventual reunification, which is why I am making the change in the llvm API first. However, putting lldb aside, I think this change is beneficial in llvm on its own, as it allows us to remove the explicit DW_AT_signature resolution in the DWARFTypePrinter.
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