On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 12:47 PM Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis via fpc-devel < fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
> Hi, > > I read at compiler/systems/i_embed.pas the AVR systeminfo, is the > only one that, has as default "dbg : dbg_dwarf3". The other embed > systems that uses dwarf ( ARM, MIPSEL, i8086, m68k, RISCV32/64, XTENSA, > Z80 ), all have as default "dbg : dbg_dwarf2". > > The AVR has problems with dbg_dwarf2 ? If not, could you please > change the AVR systeminfo to dwarf2 also for consistency ? > That was a fix for compiling controller units with lots of symbols, refer to this discussion thread: https://www.mail-archive.com/fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org/msg35416.html Dwarf2 is fine in general, unless the address (I think address in dwarf debug section, the details are a bit hazy in my memory) of symbols exceed 65535. Dwarf3 offers a larger data type for this scenario.
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