On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 12:17 PM Jakub Jelinek <ja...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 11:43:17AM -0800, Nick Desaulniers wrote: > > Modifies CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4 to be a member of a choice. Adds an > > explicit CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF2, which is the default. Does so in a > > way that's forward compatible with existing configs, and makes adding > > future versions more straightforward. > > > > Suggested-by: Arvind Sankar <nived...@alum.mit.edu> > > Suggested-by: Fangrui Song <mask...@google.com> > > Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nat...@kernel.org> > > Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahi...@kernel.org> > > Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulni...@google.com> > > --- > > Makefile | 6 +++--- > > lib/Kconfig.debug | 21 ++++++++++++++++----- > > 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile > > index 95ab9856f357..20141cd9319e 100644 > > --- a/Makefile > > +++ b/Makefile > > @@ -830,9 +830,9 @@ ifneq ($(LLVM_IAS),1) > > KBUILD_AFLAGS += -Wa,-gdwarf-2 > > endif > > > > -ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4 > > -DEBUG_CFLAGS += -gdwarf-4 > > -endif > > +dwarf-version-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF2) := 2 > > +dwarf-version-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4) := 4 > > +DEBUG_CFLAGS += -gdwarf-$(dwarf-version-y) > > Why do you make DWARF2 the default? That seems a big step back from what > the Makefile used to do before, where it defaulted to whatever DWARF version > the compiler defaulted to? > E.g. GCC 4.8 up to 10 defaults to -gdwarf-4 and GCC 11 will default to > -gdwarf-5. > DWARF2 is more than 27 years old standard, DWARF3 15 years old, > DWARF4 over 10 years old and DWARF5 almost 4 years old... > It is true that some tools aren't DWARF5 ready at this point, but with GCC > defaulting to that it will change quickly, but at least DWARF4 support has > been around for years.
I agree with you; I also do not want to change the existing defaults in this series. That is a separate issue to address. -- Thanks, ~Nick Desaulniers
