[Dwarf-Discuss] Adding a language ID for Haskell

[Michael Eager]

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.

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.

If there are differences in interpretation between different
versions of Haskell, then you would need different language
codes for each version.

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