AIX DWARF debugging sections
David Edelsohn
dje.gcc@gmail.com
Tue Oct 6 18:24:00 GMT 2015
On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:
>> > Because the AIX section does not use the standard name, I am unsure
>> > which it represents. The documentation only states "dwmac", which
>> > could expand to either name.
>> >
>> > Thanks, David
>>
>> Yeah, I think we need to figure out which one it is.
>
> That's what I have been trying to do, but I don't see any evidence
> that GCC emits it, or that binutils handles it. So the answer must
> lie somewhere on the system side. David?
The official answer from IBM XLC is the section is for both
.debug_macinfo and .debug_macro
For DWARF4 and below, the dwmac section corresponds to .debug_macinfo.
For DWARF5 and above, the dwmac section corresponds to .debug_macro.
XLC currently does not generate any macro debugging information for DWARF4.
- David
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