On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 5:50 PM Fangrui Song <mask...@google.com> wrote: > > On 2020-05-13, Eric Botcazou wrote: > >> Did I mention I dislike -fsplit-dwarf? ;) > > > >Seconded, this will be confusing for almost all users. Since the option only > >affects debug info generation, it should be prefixed with 'g' in any case. > > Updating the semantics of -gsplit-dwarf is actually my favorite as > well:) > > -gsplit-dwarf is not common. Many uses have separate -g. Let's change it. > > Attached the patch.
OK if there are no objections over the weekend. I guess this change needs documenting in gcc-11/changes.html (which probably does not exist yet, will take care of that). Thanks, Richard. > > (I also wish -gdwarf-5 did not imply -g but the ship may have shipped.)
