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...I should have said is: would you be interested in a patch which makes ".file" directives generate DW_TAG_compile_unit DIEs? Thanks, Alex Dowad -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20150528/ce3817b0/attachment.html>

Dear LLVM devs, I've noticed that LLVM's assembler (and hence clang) doesn't generate debug data when assembling, even when run with "-g". Users can add their own CFI/line number data with assembler directives. But GDB ignores the line number data if you don't have a DIE in the .debug_info section which identifies the compilation unit. (I'm not an expert on GDB, but