[PATCH] D52296: [Clang] - Add -fdwarf-fission=split,single option.

George Rimar via Phabricator via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Thu Nov 8 00:41:14 PST 2018


grimar added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D52296#1290212, @dblaikie wrote:

> Thanks! - though on reflection I'm going to invoke @echristo again about the naming. It's unfortunately a bit backwards that the pre-standard flag is -gsplit-dwarf and what we're proposing as the standard flag is -fdwarf-fission, when the DWARF standard doesn't use the word "Fission" at all (only "split DWARF").
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> Maybe it'd be easy enough/better to add the "=single" suffix to the existing "-gsplit-dwarf"? (as much as I'm still a bit confused by which debug options use a '-g' and which ones use a '-f', etc).
>
> Really sorry to go back/forth/around about on this, George.


No problems. The naming of the new flags is an important thing, no need to rush here I believe.


https://reviews.llvm.org/D52296





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