[llvm-dev] [LLD] Support DWARF64, debug_info "sorting"

[Pavel Labath via llvm-dev]

On 18/11/2020 09:51, James Henderson via llvm-dev wrote:
> I was thinking about whether I liked the section name idea myself. I 
> think a slight refinement could be to have linkers combine .debug and 
> .debug64 sections into one output section (in non -r links), so that end 
> consumers (debuggers etc) don't have to worry about it.

I was just thinking about this as well, and I think that we should still 
have linkers merge the .debug_ and .debug64 sections in the final links 
(essentially replacing the section type-based matching in the original 
proposal with section name-based matching).

It's true that the .debug64 names are not really conforming, but otoh, 
the reason why the SHT_DWARF64 idea was conforming is that DWARF is very 
hand-wavy when it comes to how it interacts with linkers and object file 
formats.

pl