https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82542
--- Comment #4 from Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> --- > Debian and Glibc use it for ABI checking; I and others use it to help generate > C bindings for my toy language without having to write a C parser for no > reason I always have maintained that this is an abuse of the option. For most platforms using the dwarf is better and easier to maintain and independent of GCC version which might change the output of these debug options (and also language independent).