Sam James <s...@gentoo.org> writes:

> Sam James <s...@gentoo.org> writes:
>
>> Back in GCC 8, with r8-5241-g8697bf9f46f361 (-gstatement-frontiers),
>> r8-6658-g58006663903200, r8-6657-gbd2b9f1e2d67ec (-gvariable-location-views),
>> some advanced GNU extensions to DWARF were introduced and enabled by default
>> with the aim of improving debugging optimized code.
>>
>> Unfortunately, as of yet, consumer support has't materialised in neither
>> GDB nor LLDB and there's no sign of any progress on those fronts. On the
>> GCC side, there's a large number of -fcompare-debug issues involving
>> -gstatement-frontiers, and some others involving -gvariable-location-views,
>> and there's nobody working on those at present.
>>
>
> I should say: for -gstatement-frontiers, there is some consumer support,
> but it still has many issues (-fcompare-debug, but also blockers of
> PR104277). I don't know if we want to just disable location views or do
> both.

Actually, reading 
https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc-patches/orblt8bp4y....@livre.home/ more
closely, it looks like indeed Alex was saying to do both together.

>
> I can submit the two separately if that's wanted.

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