On 21-02-24 17:43, Brooks Davis wrote:
On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 05:54:25PM -0800, Mark Millard wrote:
[Curiosity, not an objection.]
It appears that most likely all FreeBSD platforms get the gdb
setting by default . . .
I'm not sure we've thought about it much, but gdb is almost certainly
the right default tuning since it's what most developers are accustom
to.
And it may also affect other tools. Valgrind's DWARF reader was written
based on GCC's output, which I assume is tuned for GDB.
There are already a few limitations with clang's emitted DWARF. That has
been improving, but there is still a bit lacking regarding local
variables (possibly a limitation of the Valgrind DWARF reader, it's not
part of the code that I've worked on much).
I have no experience with changing that setting but I guess that it
could have an impact.
A+
Paul
