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| author | Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> | 2020-09-29 15:52:44 +0200 |
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| committer | Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> | 2021-01-17 01:36:39 +0100 |
| commit | 3804e937b0e252a7e42632fe6d9f898f1851a49c (patch) | |
| tree | 6066e9e99c9f4a41d24ee69b257999ea2a0062b8 /gcc/doc | |
| parent | 59cf67d1cf77e9594e58fd2848ac94d505546546 (diff) | |
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Default to DWARF5
gcc/ChangeLog:
* common.opt (gdwarf-): Init(5).
* doc/invoke.texi (-gdwarf): Document default to 5.
Diffstat (limited to 'gcc/doc')
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi index 3f30230..c290b6f 100644 --- a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi +++ b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi @@ -9606,14 +9606,15 @@ possible. @itemx -gdwarf-@var{version} @opindex gdwarf Produce debugging information in DWARF format (if that is supported). -The value of @var{version} may be either 2, 3, 4 or 5; the default version -for most targets is 4. DWARF Version 5 is only experimental. +The value of @var{version} may be either 2, 3, 4 or 5; the default +version for most targets is 5 (with the exception of VxWorks and +Darwin/Mac OS X which default to version 2). Note that with DWARF Version 2, some ports require and always use some non-conflicting DWARF 3 extensions in the unwind tables. Version 4 may require GDB 7.0 and @option{-fvar-tracking-assignments} -for maximum benefit. +for maximum benefit. Version 5 requires GDB 8.0 or higher. GCC no longer supports DWARF Version 1, which is substantially different than Version 2 and later. For historical reasons, some |