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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>[ I discussed this briefly with Paul off list and he suggested it would be better here. ]<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Among the changes in 7.0.0 are some that were added to support DWARFv5’s .debug_line. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The presence of “.file” mutes debug info generated by the assembler as of r328208 – logic in AsmParser::enabledGenDwarfForAssembly().<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The comment there states: “If we haven't encountered any .file directives (which would imply that the assembler source was produced with debug info already) then emit one describing the assembler source file itself.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Does .file imply that the assembly source was already produced with debug info? Perhaps not in all cases. If you wanted to emit an ELF::STT_FILE into your object, for example, you might add ```.file "foo.s"```.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I think we should change this behavior to the previous – check for “-g” but ignore “.file” directives. Or maybe there’s a compromise to be found among the different versions of “.file” with various args? Thoughts?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>-Brian<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>