[Dwarf-discuss] Add new language codes for BEAM languages

[Cary Coutant]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2025 at 10:04 AM Paul Guyot via Dwarf-discuss <
dwarf-discuss@lists.dwarfstd.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm working on a JIT backend for AtomVM, an alternative virtual machine
> for BEAM languages (Erlang, Elixir, Gleam), and I adopted Dwarf as the
> format for debugging the JIT-compiled and precompiled code.
>
> None of these languages seem to exist in Dwarf and I would like to propose
> that new language constants be added for the three of them (Erlang, Elixir
> and Gleam) in v6.
>
> BEAM languages are pretty mature and can already include debug info in an
> alternative proprietary format, but live debugging is a work in progress
> for both BEAM (the primary virtual machine) and AtomVM. AtomVM being
> focused on micro controllers, gdb is the natural tool and Dwarf the best
> format.
>
>
Can you provide the default array lower bound (presumably 0 for all of
these), and the versioning scheme used by each language (see
https://dwarfstd.org/languages-v6.html)?

-cary
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