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authorPaul Robinson <paul.robinson@sony.com>2018-08-03 14:05:11 +0000
committerPaul Robinson <paul.robinson@sony.com>2018-08-03 14:05:11 +0000
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Release note for DWARF v5 support
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@@ -50,6 +50,12 @@ Major New Features
was added. Please refer to the :ref:`release-notes-ubsan` section of the
release notes for the details.
+- Preliminary/experimental support for DWARF v5 debugging information. If you
+ compile with ``-gdwarf-5 -O0`` you should get fully conforming DWARF v5
+ information, including the new .debug_names accelerator table. Type units
+ and split DWARF are known not to conform, and higher optimization levels
+ will likely get a mix of v4 and v5 formats.
+
Improvements to Clang's diagnostics
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^