> I am trying to consume the file name of a compile unit. Fortunately > DW_TAG_compile_unit has a member DW_AT_name and DW_AT_comp_dir. > Unfortunately it is not clear which kind of encoding is used to > store these strings. I tried around with GCC and clang. GCC under > Windows produces latin1 encoding and clang produces UTF-8. I have > not found any information inside the DWARF debug info on the type > of encoding used. Is there a way to determine which encoding was > used? Otherwise, searching for the file on disk can become a > problem.
DWARF version 3 added the DW_AT_use_UTF8 flag on the compilation unit to indicate that strings are encoded with UTF-8. If the flag is present, you can assume all strings are UTF-8. Unfortunately, in the absence of that flag, there is no specified encoding. DWARF version 5 strongly recommends UTF-8 but does not require it. --paulr _______________________________________________ Dwarf-Discuss mailing list Dwarf-Discuss@lists.dwarfstd.org http://lists.dwarfstd.org/listinfo.cgi/dwarf-discuss-dwarfstd.org