On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 12:04:45PM +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 2020-11-24 at 08:50 +0100, Richard Biener wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 8:45 AM Jakub Jelinek <ja...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > I agree with Richard and I'd lean towards -gdwarf32/-gdwarf64, even
> > > when DWARF 32 is released in 81 years from now or how many, it would
> > > use -gdwarf-32.
> >
> > Works for me. Let's go with -gdwarf32/64.
>
> I don't have a strong opinion, so if that is the consensus, lets go
> with that. The only open question (which I wanted to avoid by picking
> -f...) is whether it enables generating debuginfo as is normal when
> using any -goption, or whether you need another -goption to explicitly
> turn on debuginfo generation when using -gdwarf32/64? My preference
> would be that any option starting with -g enables debuginfo generation
> and no additional -g is needed to keep things consistent.
I think we lost that consistency already, I think -gsplit-dwarf has been
changed quite recently not to imply -g.
That said, for -gdwarf32/64, I think it is more sensible to enable debug
info than not to.
Jakub
