[cfe-dev] .debug_frame not produced by default?

[Rafael Ávila de Espíndola]

On 16/12/11 01:10 AM, Eli Bendersky wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Building an object file with ToT Clang:
> 
>> Debug+Asserts/bin/clang -o penalty2.o -c penalty.cpp -g
> 
> These are the debug-related sections produced:
> 
> $ readelf -S penalty2.o |grep debug
>   [ 5] .debug_info       PROGBITS         0000000000000000  00000bd0
>   [ 6] .rela.debug_info  RELA             0000000000000000  00002f80
>   [ 7] .debug_abbrev     PROGBITS         0000000000000000  000010b8
>   [ 8] .debug_aranges    PROGBITS         0000000000000000  000011c3
>   [ 9] .debug_macinfo    PROGBITS         0000000000000000  000011c3
>   [10] .debug_line       PROGBITS         0000000000000000  000011c3
>   [11] .rela.debug_line  RELA             0000000000000000  00003850
>   [12] .debug_loc        PROGBITS         0000000000000000  00001350
>   [13] .debug_pubtypes   PROGBITS         0000000000000000  00001350
>   [14] .rela.debug_pubty RELA             0000000000000000  00003868
>   [15] .debug_str        PROGBITS         0000000000000000  00001373
>   [16] .debug_ranges     PROGBITS         0000000000000000  000015ff
> 
> There's no ".debug_frame", although ".eh_frame" was produced. Doesn't
> Clang/LLVM create the .debug_frame section by default?

Only if a eh_frame is not needed and there is a -g I think.

> Thanks in advance,
> Eli
> 

Cheers,
Rafael