SeTSeR added a comment. In D94639#2917445 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D94639#2917445>, @rnk wrote:
> In D94639#2917340 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D94639#2917340>, @SeTSeR wrote: > >> Hello! As far as I understand, Clang does not preserve info about namespace >> for functions declared in namespaces with `-gline-numbers-only` flag. Is >> there any way to retrieve this info for DWARF? I thought FIXME at line 261 >> in CGDebugInfo was addressing exactly this issue. > > No, I don't think there is a way to achieve this. > > The current -gcodeview -gline-tables-only behavior as I understand it is to > emit regular debug info, but skip two key source of info: > > - never emit complete class declarations, always use forward decls > - never emit variable locations, only emit source locations > > For DWARF, I think we also try to skip namespace scopes, class forward decls, > function types, and other things like that, but I forget the details. > > I happen to know that many users of -gline-tables-only are very space > constrained: we can't simply port this change from CV to DWARF. We'd have to > add a new flag. The bar for such a flag is high. If someone provides a > well-motivated use case, we could consider it. Thank you for the detailed answer. I'll discuss our use case with our team. Should I create a separate ticket for this? Or maybe it would be better if I submitted the PR adding this flag? Repository: rG LLVM Github Monorepo CHANGES SINCE LAST ACTION https://reviews.llvm.org/D94639/new/ https://reviews.llvm.org/D94639 _______________________________________________ cfe-commits mailing list cfe-commits@lists.llvm.org https://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cfe-commits
