r222731 - docs: Update the MSVCCompatibility doc for changes to debug info

[David Majnemer]

Author: majnemer
Date: Tue Nov 25 00:59:35 2014
New Revision: 222731

URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=222731&view=rev
Log:
docs: Update the MSVCCompatibility doc for changes to debug info

The document should reflect that we now support emission for DWARF.

Modified:
    cfe/trunk/docs/MSVCCompatibility.rst

Modified: cfe/trunk/docs/MSVCCompatibility.rst
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/cfe/trunk/docs/MSVCCompatibility.rst?rev=222731&r1=222730&r2=222731&view=diff
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--- cfe/trunk/docs/MSVCCompatibility.rst (original)
+++ cfe/trunk/docs/MSVCCompatibility.rst Tue Nov 25 00:59:35 2014
@@ -72,11 +72,14 @@ The status of major ABI-impacting C++ fe
 .. _/vm: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/yad46a6z.aspx
 .. _pointer to a member of a virtual base class: http://llvm.org/PR15713
 
-* Debug info: :partial:`Minimal`.  Clang emits CodeView line tables into the
-  object file, similar to what MSVC emits when given the ``/Z7`` flag.
-  Microsoft's link.exe will read this information and use it to create a PDB,
+* Debug info: :partial:`Minimal`.  Clang emits both CodeView line tables
+  (similar to what MSVC emits when given the ``/Z7`` flag) and DWARF debug
+  information into the object file.
+  Microsoft's link.exe will transform the CodeView line tables into a PDB,
   enabling stack traces in all modern Windows debuggers.  Clang does not emit
-  any type info or description of variable layout.
+  any CodeView-compatible type info or description of variable layout.
+  Binaries linked with either binutils' ld or LLVM's lld should be usable with
+  GDB however sophisticated C++ expressions are likely to fail.
 
 * RTTI: :good:`Complete`.  Generation of RTTI data structures has been
   finished, along with support for the ``/GR`` flag.