On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 06:38:16PM -0800, David Blaikie via Gcc wrote:
> > I would pick -gdwarf32/-gdwarf64 (are we sure the DWARF spec will
> > never reach version 32 or 64?
> > maybe -g32 / -g64 similar to -m32/-m64 are good enough?)
>
> Any sense of a good way to break the tie/uncertainty?
>
> Alternatively: If Clang picks something here (likely from within this
> range of candidates - though given I've got a fair bit of say on the
> Clang side, and if left to me, I'd probably lean heavily on the
> -fdwarf32/64 side), is it likely that choice will tend to be adopted
> by GCC? I'd rather not get out of sync, but I expect a bit hard to get
> a conclusion on the GCC side without patches in progress, etc. Got a
> sense of who are the people who would likely be deciders/patch
> approvers for such a naming choice on the GCC side?
Depends on what it would choose.
I agree with Richard and I'd lean towards -gdwarf32/-gdwarf64, even when
DWARF 32 is released in 81 years from now or how many, it would use
-gdwarf-32.
Jakub
