[lldb-dev] Adding DWARF5 accelerator table support to llvm

[Jan Kratochvil via lldb-dev]

On Wed, 17 Jan 2018 17:13:36 +0100, Pavel Labath via lldb-dev wrote:
> so I'm writing this email to see if there's anyone
> else interested in this topic, and to try to synchronize our efforts.

I am sure interested in DWARF-5 .debug_names.  I wrote its producer+consumer
for GDB (but not producing/using DW_IDX_DIE_offset as GDB cannot use it).


> 1. add .debug_names support to llvm-dwarfdump via the DebugInfo
> library (to enable testing of the table generation)

FYI FSF binutils readelf can read .debug_names already for some possible
format cross-check (to prevent multiple incompatible implementations).


> 2. add .debug_names generation support (not enabled by default)
+
> I also have a very basic implementation of (2), but this is still quite far
> from being upstreamable.

Originally I expected I will reuse the GDB .debug_names producer for LLVM:
	https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=437afbb81e3a04cbd933fc534a50c686eaa63b19
	https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=8af5c486ea6153bb84b9257def4e5faa4bc72421

But I see you were faster.


Jan