On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 10:36:48AM +0200, Richard Biener wrote:
> GCC would have to cease supporting the stabs variants or output them
> from the DWARF IL we have. I believe this is what LLVM does.
> (I specifically discouraged the AdaCore folks from writing a windows
> debug format within the current framework).
>
> Your langhook could have been sth like lang_hooks.annotate_die
> (dw_die_ref *, tree)
> with exposing the dwarf API and thus letting the FE amend a DIE as it likes
> (instead of just exposing three attributes).
I think that would risk FEs would then repeat too much stuff that dwarf2out
could do for them, many attributes are used by multiple languages for the
same or similar purpose. E.g. the current langhooks for DW_AT_inline is used
multiple times, not just to add the attribute but also for other purposes
before it happens. Plus allowing other files to use the dwarf2out
infrastructure would be quite a lot of work.
As for emitting other debug formats from DWARF, I guess that is reasonable,
but the question is whether anybody still cares about stabs enough to
convert it.
Jakub
