[Dwarf-discuss] Missing a useful reference Figure F.2.3 DWARF5 . Reference incorrect.

Cary Coutant ccoutant@gmail.com
Thu Jan 2 01:29:50 GMT 2025


> "The .debug_loclists.dwo section contains the location
> lists referenced by DW_AT_location attributes in the
> .debug_info.dwo section. This section has a similar format
> to the .debug_loclists section in a non-split object,
> but it has some small differences as explained in Section
> 7.7.3 on page 226."
>
> Page 405 line 22.
>
> 7.7.3 has no explanation whatever.
> It is just a list of DW_LLE names, so the
> reference is incorrect.

Ah, that's probably left over from before we adopted the new DW_LLE
encoding for the non-split case. In the original split-DWARF proposal,
the new encoding was only for the .debug_loclists.dwo section; the
.debug_loclists section in a non-split compilation was meant to keep
the old DWARF-4 format. We should just strike that sentence.

-cary


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