Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] Kbuild: make DWARF version a choice

[Arvind Sankar]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 06:33:57PM -0600, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 06:22:10PM -0500, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> > Btw, is -gsplit-dwarf at all useful for assembler files?
> 
> If you invoke the assembler via the compiler, with that flag it still
> creates separate .o and .dwo files (via objcopy invocations as usual).
> Whether that is useful depends on if you have any debug info that can
> be split :-)
> 
> 
> Segher

Right, the latter was what I was really asking :) We don't currently
pass -gsplit-dwarf for assembler and I was wondering if that mattered.

Thanks.