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2019 May 17
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Debug Info is not generated for extern variables .
I think emitting "testExt" as an external declaration (what gcc does) doesn't do much for the debugger; being a declaration, it has no location, and so you can't do things like examine its value, unless you find the symbol in the defining CU first.
I don't see a real "compatibility with gcc" argument here. Is there some behavior of some consumer that is affected