[PATCH] D27769: Update MSVC compat docs about debug info.

Nico Weber via Phabricator via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Wed Dec 14 12:52:36 PST 2016


thakis added inline comments.


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Comment at: docs/MSVCCompatibility.rst:80
+  Windows debuggers and tools like ETW.
+  There is no way to request DWARF debug info in clang-cl mode, so linking
+  with either binutils' ld or LLVM's lld won't produce debug info.  Work to
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rnk wrote:
> thakis wrote:
> > I believe this is true?
> You can actually pass -gdwarf to clang-cl to get DWARF. I'm not sure we need to say anything about what happens when you link with DWARF. We mostly want to say that you need to use link.exe to get PDBs today, and that we are working on PDBs in LLD.
Huh, it's not in /? output for some reason. Do you know why? Should we fix this? (I'll remove the reference to DWARF here)


https://reviews.llvm.org/D27769





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