[cfe-dev] DWARFv5 by default in clang?

David Blaikie via cfe-dev cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org
Thu Nov 4 15:05:50 PDT 2021


On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 3:01 PM Adrian Prantl <aprantl at apple.com> wrote:

> On Darwin, we still have a sizeable number of test failures to go until
> we're there:
> https://green.lab.llvm.org/green/view/LLDB/job/lldb-cmake-matrix/
>

I'm not sure what/where/how to read that - could you give me some pointers?

In any case, as I recall, Darwin had a different default for quite a while
after we switched the default on other platforms to v4, so I guess we could
do the same thing for v5.


>
> -- adrian
>
> Am 11/4/21 um 2:58 PM schrieb David Blaikie <dblaikie at gmail.com>:
>
> Should we change Clang's default to DWARFv5?
>
> (I'm motivated by having fixed a bug because I only tested with v4 - I
> should've tested with v5, but got me thinking about maybe v5 is just a
> better default at this point)
>
> Google's been using v5 as the default for the better part of a year at
> this point - not the most debugger usage, but we validated GDB and LLDB for
> v5 pretty well & haven't encountered major issues since the switch.
>
>
>
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