https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=100725
--- Comment #3 from Richard Biener <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Dave Love from comment #2) > (In reply to Jakub Jelinek from comment #1) > > Those binutils are too old for dwarf5. > > When the linker doesn't print any diagnostics, that isn't a big deal, but if > > it needs to diagnose something and parse DWARF for that, you need 2.35 or > > later. > > Does that mean you can't reasonably use 11 on most distributions without > explicitly using -gdwarf-4? The release notes suggested to me it would > still work, just not with full functionality somehow, and there is some > adjustment for the binutils version. Is there some way to configure it to > default to DWARF 4 other than, I guess, adding specs to treat -g as > -gdwarf-4? Yes, on older distributions SUSE patches GCC 11 to default to -gdwarf-4.
