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DWARF Open IssuesThe following table lists open issues (questions, comments, corrections, etc.) which have been submitted about the current version of the DWARF Debugging Format Standard. To find descriptions of issues resolved in the current or past versions of the standard, follow the links below. To submit an issue, please go to the Public Comment page.DWARF issues resolved in DWARF Version 3. DWARF issues resolved in DWARF Version 4. DWARF issues resolved in DWARF Version 5. |
| Number |
Submitter |
Description |
Type |
Champion |
Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 200602.1 | Paul T Robinson | .debug_macro.dwo can refer to .debug_line.dwo? | Clarification | Jeremy Morse | Open |
| 180613.1 | Andrew Cagney | 0xffff in tables rendered with spaces | Editorial | Andrew Cagney | Open |
| 210208.1 | Jakub Jelinek | Add DW_LANG_C_plus_plus_17 and DW_LANG_C_plus_plus_20 | Enhancement | Michael Eager | Open |
| 200803.1 | Andrew Kelley | Add DW_LNS_jmp - modify file offset of line number program | Enhancement | Hafiz Abid Qadeer | Open |
| 161109.2 | Jakub Jelinek | Add DW_OP_call* alternative to refer to variable value | Enhancement | Jakub Jelinek | Open |
| 181223.1 | Jordan Frost | Add Microsoft SourceLink support | Enhancement | Tony Tye | Open |
| 170503.1 | Vasily Levchenko | Adding DW_LANG_Kotlin constant in DW_AT_laguage attribute | Enhancement | Michael Eager | Open |
| 190407.1 | Shawn Landden | Adding Zig Language Attribute | Editorial | Michael Eager | Open |
| 181223.2 | Jordan Frost | Adopt Microsoft's Symbol Server Key concept for elf and sym files | Enhancement | Eric Christopher | Open |
| 171130.2 | Thomas Anderson | Allow $ORIGIN in DW_AT_comp_dir | Enhancement | Caroline Tice | Open |
| 180426.1 | Mark Wielaard | Allow DW_FORM_strp_sup in .debug_line vendor defined content descriptions | Ambiguity | Mark Wielaard | Open |
| 190407.2 | Shawn Landden | Allow debug functions that clarify which of a union is valid. | Enhancement | Eric Christopher | Open |
| 141117.1 | Adrian Prantl | Arbitrary expressions as formal parameter default values | Enhancement | Adrian Prantl | Open |
| 200505.4 | David Anderson | Augmentation string | Editorial | Ron Brender | Open |
| 181205.1 | Greg Clayton | Clarify DW_OP_piece documentation for parts of values that are optimized out | Clarification | Adrian Prantl | Open |
| 180326.1 | Paul Robinson | Clarify consistency of DWARF 32/64 format with a CU | Clarification | Paul Robinson | Open |
| 161206.2 | Andreas Arnez | Clarify relationship between DW_OP_piece and DW_OP_bit_piece | Clarification | Adrian Prantl | Open |
| 210204.1 | Michael Eager | Creat DW_LANG assignment registry | Enhancement | Michael Eager | Open |
| 180201.1 | Scott Linder | DWARF and source text embedding | Enhancement | Tony Tye | Open |
| 161018.1 | Simon Brand | DWARF-embedded source for online-compiled programs | Enhancement | Tony Tye | Open |
| 171103.1 | Mark Wielaard | DW_AT_call_origin should be encoded as reference class, not an exprloc | Ambiguity | Mark Wielaard | Open |
| 200709.1 | Simon Marchi | DW_AT_rnglists_base in DW_TAG_skeleton_unit | Error | Mark Wielaard | Open |
| 190225.1 | James Harding | DW_AT_segment_attribute | Clarification | Zoran Zaric | Open |
| 170527.1 | Jan Kratochvil | DW_IDX_* for static/extern symbols | Enhancement | Cary Coutant | Open |
| 180503.2 | Sture Carlson | DW_LANG_ code for Ada 2005 and Ada 2012 are missing | Ambiguity | Michael Eager | Open |
| 171115.1 | Andrew Kelley | DW_LANG_Zig | Enhancement | Michael Eager | Open |
| 191025.1 | Paul T Robinson | DW_OP_bit_piece offset operand mostly doesn't matter | Editorial | Paul T Robinson | Open |
| 191107.1 | Chirag Patel | DW_OP_byte_swap | Enhancement | Andrew Cagney | Open |
| 200505.7 | David Anderson | Declarations with reduced scope | Editorial | Ron Brender | Open |
| 181026.3 | Paul Robinson | Don't forbid extensions to the dwp file | Improvement | Jeremy Morse | Open |
| 171216.1 | Aleksandr Povaliaev | Extend DW_TAG_compile_unit entry with DW_TAG_hash_value | Enhancement | Jini Susan George | Open |
| 170427.2 | Alexandre Oliva | Extending loclists | Enhancement | Mark Wielaard | Open |
| 181003.1 | Paul T Robinson | Forbid DW_OP_call_ref/DW_FORM_ref_addr in a .dwo section | Error | Jeremy Morse | Open |
| 181019.1 | Paul Robinson | Inconsistency in DW_AT_import descriptions | Clarification | Paul Robinson | Open |
| 200710.1 | Xing GUO | Inconsistent decription of data representation for the range list table. | Ambiguity | David Blaike | Open |
| 200505.3 | David Anderson | Index attribute encodings | Editorial | Ron Brender | Open |
| 210218.1 | Tom Tromey | Index entry shows up in PDF | Editorial | Open | |
| 200505.1 | David Anderson | Introduction has spurious word unittype | Editorial | Ron Brender | Open |
| 180123.1 | Pierre-Marie de Rodat | Layout of discriminant entries in variant parts | Improvement | Tom Tromey | Open |
| 180914.1 | Paul Bowen-Huggett | Line Number Program Header directories_count field missing note. | Editorial | Ron Brender | Open |
| 180426.2 | Paul T Robinson | Line table "comment" opcode | Enhancement | Tom Russell | Open |
| 170427.1 | Alexandre Oliva | Location View Numbering | Enhancement | Mark Wielaard | Open |
| 200505.2 | David Anderson | Lookup by name | Editorial | Ron Brender | Open |
| 200519.1 | Igor Kudrin | Missing comments for some links in figure B.2 | Editorial | Ron Brender | Open |
| 200427.1 | Paul T Robinson | Missing link in section relationships | Editorial | Ron Brender | Open |
| 181026.1 | Paul Robinson | Move DW_AT_entry_pc from split full to skeleton unit | Enhancement | Cary Coutant | Open |
| 190130.1 | Philip Craig | Multiple headers in .debug_loclists and .debug_rnglists | Ambiguity | David Blaikie | Open |
| 161109.1 | Jakub Jelinek | No way to describe Fortran derived types with deferred length components | Error | Jakub Jelinek | Open |
| 181026.2 | Paul Robinson | Replace DW_FORM_strp_sup with strp_sup4 and strp_sup8 | Enhancement | Paul Robinson | Open |
| 200120.1 | Sergey Kuznetsov | Requesting DW_LANG_Crystal for Crystal Language | Enhancement | Michael Eager | Open |
| 210115.1 | H. Peter Anvin | Requesting a DW_lang_ code for the Netwide Assembler (NASM) | Enhancement | Michael Eager | Open |
| 200609.1 | Paul T Robinson | Reserve an address value for "not present" | Enhancement | Tom Russell | Open |
| 200720.1 | Markus Metzger | SIMD location expressions | Enhancement | Markus Metzger | Open |
| 190809.1 | Tom Tromey | Standardize DW_AT_GNU_bias | Enhancement | Tom Tromey | Open |
| 210208.2 | Tom Tromey | Standardize DW_AT_GNU_numerator and DW_AT_GNU_denominator | Enhancement | Tom Tromey | Open |
| 200505.6 | David Anderson | State Machine Registers | Editorial | Ron Brender | Open |
| 180517.2 | Tom Tromey | Tagless variant parts | Enhancement | Tom Tromey | Open |
| 140906.1 | Cary Coutant | Two-Level Line Tables | Enhancement | Cary Coutant | Open |
| 171130.1 | Ben Dunbobbin | Typo - Regression since DWARF3 standard | Editorial | Ron Brender | Open |
| 200215.1 | Gabor Greif | Typo on http://dwarfstd.org/Comment.php | Editorial | Michael Eager | Open |
| 180503.1 | Paul Robinson | Usage suggestion for LEB128 padding | Improvement | Paul Robinson | Open |
| 180517.1 | Tom Tromey | Variant parts without a discriminant | Clarification | Tom Tromey | Open |
| 201007.1 | Markus Metzger | Wide Registers in Location Description Expressions | Enhancement | Markus Metzger | Open |
| 210113.1 | Paul Robinson | Zero-length entries in .debug_aranges | Improvement | Tom Russell | Open |
| 200716.1 | David Blaikie | debug_macro header is missing a length prefix | Enhancement | David Blaikie | Open |
| 180625.1 | Andrew Cagney | inconsistent initial length description - missing reference and/or TMI | Editorial | Andrew Cagney | Open |
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