dwarf4 Separate Type Unit Entries

Roland McGrath roland at redhat.com
Thu Mar 10 19:34:07 UTC 2011


> I'd like us to enable -gdwarf-4 by default in F16.

I'd really like .debug_types-writing to be a separate knob from "v4 format".
The v4 format has many good improvements like DW_FORM_flag_present that are
always desireable when consumers can handle them.  .debug_types and
DW_FORM_ref_sig8 are not in the same category at all.


Thanks,
Roland


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