[Lldb-commits] [PATCH] D32167: Add support for type units (.debug_types) to LLDB in a way that is compatible with DWARF 5

[Jan Kratochvil via Phabricator via lldb-commits]

jankratochvil added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D32167#1062614, @clayborg wrote:

> Found the DWZ stuff:
>  http://www.dwarfstd.org/ShowIssue.php?issue=120604.1&type=open


BTW the current DWZ tool <https://sourceware.org/git/?p=dwz.git> supports only DWARF-4 and the DWZ tags are non-standard GNU extensions.  Therefore `DW_FORM_GNU_ref_alt` in existing DWZ files is `DW_FORM_ref_alt` in the proposal you found. I am not aware of any real documentation for this DWARF-4 GNU extension. But DWARF-5 further modified the proposal so it became `DW_FORM_ref_sup4`+`DW_FORM_ref_sup8` in the DWARF-5 standard.

My DWZ-for-LLDB patchset implements the DWARF-4 non-standard GNU extensions as it is used in RHEL-7 (and possibly RHEL-8, not sure yet) which will be supported at least till 2024. It is also present in all recent Fedoras. Currently the DWZ tool has not yet been ported to DWARF-5, Mark Wielaard from Red Hat plans to do so.


https://reviews.llvm.org/D32167