GCC 11 Compiler Might Finally Enable DWARF 5 Debugging By Default

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GCC 11 Compiler Might Finally Enable DWARF 5 Debugging By Default

For a number of years the GNU Compiler Collection has shipped experimental support for the DWARF 5 debugging data format while finally for next year's GCC 11 release it might be deemed stable and used by default...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GCC-11-DWARF-5-Possible-Default

[Raka555]

I wonder what the state of DWARF 5 is in LLVM.
With quick google I can see there was some activity around it in 2018, but can't find details.

[carewolf]

Sounds like they finally worked a bit on the size. Great.