Messages in this thread | | | From | Nick Desaulniers <> | Date | Fri, 29 Jan 2021 16:46:02 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 0/2] Kbuild: DWARF v5 support |
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On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 4:08 PM Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 8:43 PM Nick Desaulniers > <ndesaulniers@google.com> wrote: > > > > DWARF v5 is the latest standard of the DWARF debug info format. > > > > DWARF5 wins significantly in terms of size and especially so when mixed > > with compression (CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED). > > > > Link: http://www.dwarfstd.org/doc/DWARF5.pdf > > > > Patch 1 is a cleanup that lays the ground work and isn't DWARF > > v5 specific. > > Patch 2 implements Kconfig and Kbuild support for DWARFv5. > > > > When you will do a v7... > > Can you look also at places where we have hardcoded DWARF-2 handling...
Ah, sorry, I just saw this now, after sending v7. Can we wait to purge DWARF v2 until after we have DWARF v5?
In fact, if they are orthogonal like I suspect, why don't you send some patches and I will help you test them? -- Thanks, ~Nick Desaulniers
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