Hi Michael, On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Michael Eager <ea...@eagerm.com> wrote:
> On 02/28/14 07:34, Johan Tibell wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> We recently added DWARF generation support to GHC, the main Haskell >> compiler. We'd like to emit a >> Haskell language ID in the DWARF output* and my understanding is that >> these IDs are standardized. >> What do I need to do to get one added to the standard? Should we add one >> for Haskell the language or >> one for each revision of the language (98 and 2010)? >> >> * It's my understanding that GDB ignores the names we emit and falls back >> to using symbol names >> because we lack a recognized language ID. >> >> Please submit your comments about the DWARF standard using our > Public Comment web page: http://dwarfstd.org/Comment.php. > Done. Are there features in Haskell which cannot be represented in > the existing DWARF standard? If so, you might consider submitting > a proposal for extensions to add this support. > There are and we're currently putting them in an experimental .debug_ghc section, only for interpretation by the GHC run-time system, but I think it's too early to try to standardise anything here yet. We'll come back when we have something solid and tested. > If there are differences in interpretation between different > versions of Haskell, then you would need different language > codes for each version. No, there isn't. Cheers, Johan
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