Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] Kbuild: make DWARF version a choice

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 11:43:17AM -0800, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> Modifies CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4 to be a member of a choice. Adds an
> explicit CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF2, which is the default. Does so in a
> way that's forward compatible with existing configs, and makes adding
> future versions more straightforward.
> 
> Suggested-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Makefile          |  6 +++---
>  lib/Kconfig.debug | 21 ++++++++++++++++-----
>  2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 95ab9856f357..20141cd9319e 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -830,9 +830,9 @@ ifneq ($(LLVM_IAS),1)
>  KBUILD_AFLAGS	+= -Wa,-gdwarf-2
>  endif
>  
> -ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
> -DEBUG_CFLAGS	+= -gdwarf-4
> -endif
> +dwarf-version-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF2) := 2
> +dwarf-version-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4) := 4
> +DEBUG_CFLAGS	+= -gdwarf-$(dwarf-version-y)

Why do you make DWARF2 the default?  That seems a big step back from what
the Makefile used to do before, where it defaulted to whatever DWARF version
the compiler defaulted to?
E.g. GCC 4.8 up to 10 defaults to -gdwarf-4 and GCC 11 will default to
-gdwarf-5.
DWARF2 is more than 27 years old standard, DWARF3 15 years old,
DWARF4 over 10 years old and DWARF5 almost 4 years old...
It is true that some tools aren't DWARF5 ready at this point, but with GCC
defaulting to that it will change quickly, but at least DWARF4 support has
been around for years.

	Jakub