<div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Let me correct myself, it looks like there is in fact a user range of opcodes. Seems adding a language code at this time is not yet needed. I will use that instead for now.<br><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>I will send out preliminary patches for LLDB and GDB symbol de-mangling when I have a preliminary experimental release ready. Currently the symbol format is unstable so adding de-mangling for multiple code styles is not warranted. GCC support is not planned as I have my hands full with LLVM already.</span></div></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In that case I will keep using C++'s language code, however this may confuse debuggers that try to parse the code as C++ and may potentially cause them to incorrectly parse the code (instead of recognizing that they are missing a language plugin and falling back to only generic functionality).</div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div>
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On Thursday, September 10th, 2026 at 21:54, Cary Coutant <<a href="mailto:ccoutant@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener">ccoutant@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi Ryan,<div><br></div><div>The DWARF committee considered your request for a new language code, and decided not to assign one for Quxlang at this time. There was general agreement that before we add a new language code to the DWARF spec, we'd like to see more projects collaborating on it (e.g., patch submissions to llvm, gcc, or gdb). We'll check back with you before we publish the next version of DWARF; please let us know of any progress in this area.</div><div><br></div><div>-cary</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 20, 2026 at 4:29 PM Ryan P. Nicholl <<a href="mailto:rnicholl@protonmail.com" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener">rnicholl@protonmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Thank you.<br><br><br>After some thought, I have decided upon the following version field information:<br><br><div style="color:rgb(8,8,8);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><pre style="font-family:"JetBrains Mono",monospace;font-size:9.8pt">If the entire version number is the value of 0, this indicates a build without any version information. Otherwise, <br>the least significant 8 bits represent the Major version of the language, unless they are 0 or greater than 127.<br>The value of 0 indicates a preview, special, experimental, or development version. A value greater than 127 is<br>reserved for any major version which requires more than 7 bits to represent the major version. The remaining <br>bits have a format which is defined by the major version. As no major version has been released yet, the <br>meaning of these bits are currently reserved.</pre></div><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div>
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<div dir="ltr">I've posted this as Issue 260531.1:<div><br></div><div><a href="https://dwarfstd.org/issues/260531.1.html" style="word-break:break-word" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://dwarfstd.org/issues/260531.1.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>-cary</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 2, 2026 at 6:59 PM Ryan P. Nicholl <<a href="mailto:rnicholl@protonmail.com" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">rnicholl@protonmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">For now unspecified, I'll figure that out a bit later.</div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div>
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On Wednesday, June 3rd, 2026 at 00:09, Cary Coutant <<a href="mailto:ccoutant@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">ccoutant@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Have you chosen a version scheme for this language? Or should we leave it unspecified?<div><br></div><div>-cary</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, May 31, 2026 at 6:47 PM Ryan P. Nicholl via Dwarf-discuss <<a href="mailto:dwarf-discuss@lists.dwarfstd.org" style="word-break:break-word" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">dwarf-discuss@lists.dwarfstd.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><pre><code>I would like to submit the following proposal for consideration:</code></pre><pre><code><br># <span>Add DW_LANG_Quxlang</span>
## Background<br></code></pre><pre><code>A new programming language named Quxlang is in development, and has <br></code></pre><pre><code>progressed to the point where it is generating linked binaries,<br></code></pre><pre><code>but does not have it's own language code yet.
## Overview
Add a new language code for Quxlang.
## Proposed Changes
<span>In <span>Language and Version Codes</span> add:</span></code></pre><pre><code><div><span> DW_LANG_Quxlang, <assigned by committee>, default lower bound = 0</span></div><div><br></div><div><span>In Language Names, add:</span></div><div><span> DW_LANG_Quxlang, Quxlang</span></div></code></pre><pre><code><span></span>
## Dependencies
None
## References<br></code></pre><pre><code>
<span><a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="https://gitlab.com/rpnx/quxlang" style="word-break:break-word" target="_blank">https://gitlab.com/rpnx/quxlang</a></span>
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