On Oct 17, 2011, at 3:16 PM, Tom Tromey wrote: >>>>>> "Tristan" == Tristan Gingold <ging...@adacore.com> writes: > > Tom> Another way to look at it is that there have been many changes to GCC's > Tom> DWARF output in the last few years. Surely these have broken these > Tom> DWARF consumers more than this change possibly could. > > Tristan> Yes, but there is -gstrict-dwarf to stay compatible with old > behavior. > > Yes, but this change is strictly compliant.
Agreed. > What makes it different > from any other change that was made to make GCC more compliant? > Hypothetical consumers could also break on those changes. The others changes were often corner cases, while this one is very visible. What is wrong with my suggestion of adding a command line option to keep the siblings ? This option could be removed in a few years if nobody complained about sibling removal. Tristan.
