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Re: [PATCH, Darwin, drivers] Split DWARF is not supported on Darwin.
- From: Mike Stump <mikestump at comcast dot net>
- To: Iain Sandoe <iain at sandoe dot co dot uk>
- Cc: GCC Patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 13:45:55 -0700
- Subject: Re: [PATCH, Darwin, drivers] Split DWARF is not supported on Darwin.
- References: <B677D1BB-1E68-41B1-B9B0-265291471A25@sandoe.co.uk>
On Aug 16, 2018, at 6:55 AM, Iain Sandoe <iain@sandoe.co.uk> wrote:
>
> The Darwin toolchains have a separate debug linker (dsymutil) so that the
> link-time penalty for debug data is not usually seen. At present, it's not
> clear how we would support split DWARF on Darwin (or if it would bring
> any additional benefit over dsymutil).
>
> This patch produces diagnostic output to note that it's not supported and
> disables it. We also skip test cases that invoke -gsplit-dwarf.
>
> NOTE that the tests failed because of PR81685 and this fix will need to
> be back-ported after the fix for 81685.
>
> OK for trunk?
Ok.
> affected branches (7,8)?
Ok.