[PATCH] D31464: [ELF] - Stop producing broken entries in .debug_ranges section

George Rimar via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Tue Apr 4 11:24:43 PDT 2017


>I'd like to reiterate what I said before on this:

>"If anything like this is going to be done - I suspect the right place to discuss it is on the DWARF committee (or at the very least, >crossposted between llvm-dev and lldb-dev with all the Usual Suspects of debug info support included (echristo, aprantl, Paul >Robinson, myself))"

Ah I am sorry then, I thought your words were about other possible changes mentioned in comments and not about what this patch do. I had to clarify explicitly.
bfd already do the same, I could not imagine we need anything like additional discussion here. Ok then.

>I think any part of DWARF that /needs/ special casing in the linker (short of explicit constructs like the index building) is a bit >suspect given the strong goals of the DWARF committee to be pretty object-file neutral and warrants some discussion to figure  >out if it's necessary/appropriate/etc.
>
>(but I'm not a code owner of the LLD project - so they (Rui, Rafael) can that suggestion/advice as they prefer, of course)

George.
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