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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 171103.1 | Mark Wielaard | DW_AT_call_origin should be encoded as reference class, not an exprloc | Ambiguity | Mark Wielaard | Open |
| 180426.1 | Mark Wielaard | Allow DW_FORM_strp_sup in .debug_line vendor defined content descriptions | Ambiguity | Mark Wielaard | Open |
| 180503.2 | Sture Carlson | DW_LANG_ code for Ada 2005 and Ada 2012 are missing | Ambiguity | Michael Eager | Lang code assigned |
| 190130.1 | Philip Craig | Multiple headers in .debug_loclists and .debug_rnglists | Ambiguity | David Blaikie | Open |
| 200710.1 | Xing GUO | Inconsistent decription of data representation for the range list table. | Ambiguity | David Blaike | Open |
| 210310.1 | David Blaikie | Clarify DW_AT_rnglists_base and DW_FORM_rnglistx in Split DWARF | Ambiguity | Open | |
| 161206.2 | Andreas Arnez | Clarify relationship between DW_OP_piece and DW_OP_bit_piece | Clarification | Adrian Prantl | Rejected with clarification |
| 180326.1 | Paul Robinson | Clarify consistency of DWARF 32/64 format with a CU | Clarification | Paul Robinson | Open |
| 180517.1 | Tom Tromey | Variant parts without a discriminant | Clarification | Open | |
| 181019.1 | Paul Robinson | Inconsistency in DW_AT_import descriptions | Clarification | Paul Robinson | Open |
| 181205.1 | Greg Clayton | Clarify DW_OP_piece documentation for parts of values that are optimized out | Clarification | Adrian Prantl | Open |
| 190225.1 | James Harding | DW_AT_segment_attribute | Clarification | Zoran Zaric | Open |
| 200602.1 | Paul T Robinson | .debug_macro.dwo can refer to .debug_line.dwo? | Clarification | Jeremy Morse | Open |
| 171130.1 | Ben Dunbobbin | Typo - Regression since DWARF3 standard | Editorial | Ron Brender | Accepted |
| 180613.1 | Andrew Cagney | 0xffff in tables rendered with spaces | Editorial | Ron Brender | Open |
| 180625.1 | Andrew Cagney | inconsistent initial length description - missing reference and/or TMI | Editorial | Andrew Cagney | Open |
| 180914.1 | Paul Bowen-Huggett | Line Number Program Header directories_count field missing note. | Editorial | Ron Brender | Open |
| 190407.1 | Shawn Landden | Adding Zig Language Attribute | Editorial | Michael Eager | Open |
| 191025.1 | Paul T Robinson | DW_OP_bit_piece offset operand mostly does matter | Editorial | Paul T Robinson | Open |
| 200215.1 | Gabor Greif | Typo on http://dwarfstd.org/Comment.php | Editorial | Michael Eager | Accepted |
| 200427.1 | Paul T Robinson | Missing link in section relationships | Editorial | Ron Brender | Open |
| 200505.1 | David Anderson | Introduction has spurious word unittype | Editorial | Ron Brender | Accepted |
| 200505.2 | David Anderson | Lookup by name | Editorial | Ron Brender | Accepted |
| 200505.3 | David Anderson | Index attribute encodings | Editorial | Ron Brender | Accepted |
| 200505.4 | David Anderson | Augmentation string | Editorial | Ron Brender | Open |
| 200505.6 | David Anderson | State Machine Registers | Editorial | Ron Brender | Accepted |
| 200505.7 | David Anderson | Declarations with reduced scope | Editorial | Ron Brender | Open |
| 200519.1 | Igor Kudrin | Missing comments for some links in figure B.2 | Editorial | Ron Brender | Open |
| 210218.1 | Tom Tromey | Index entry shows up in PDF | Editorial | Open | |
| 210314.1 | David Anderson | Eliminate all indefinite antecedent | Editorial | Ron Brender | Open |
| 140906.1 | Cary Coutant | Two-Level Line Tables | Enhancement | Cary Coutant | Open |
| 141117.1 | Adrian Prantl | Arbitrary expressions as formal parameter default values | Enhancement | Adrian Prantl | Open |
| 161018.1 | Simon Brand | DWARF-embedded source for online-compiled programs | Enhancement | Tony Tye | Open |
| 161109.2 | Jakub Jelinek | Add DW_OP_call* alternative to refer to variable value | Enhancement | Jakub Jelinek | Open |
| 170427.1 | Alexandre Oliva | Location View Numbering | Enhancement | Mark Wielaard | Open |
| 170427.2 | Alexandre Oliva | Extending loclists | Enhancement | Ron Brender | Open |
| 170427.3 | Alexandre Oliva | Extending loclists with common sublists | Enhancement | Mark Wielaard | Open |
| 170503.1 | Vasily Levchenko | Adding DW_LANG_Kotlin constant in DW_AT_laguage attribute | Enhancement | Michael Eager | Lang code assigned |
| 170527.1 | Jan Kratochvil | DW_IDX_* for static/extern symbols | Enhancement | Cary Coutant | Accepted |
| 171115.1 | Andrew Kelley | DW_LANG_Zig | Enhancement | Michael Eager | Lang code assigned |
| 171130.2 | Thomas Anderson | Allow $ORIGIN in DW_AT_comp_dir | Enhancement | Caroline Tice | Open |
| 171216.1 | Aleksandr Povaliaev | Extend DW_TAG_compile_unit entry with DW_TAG_hash_value | Enhancement | Jini Susan George | Open |
| 180201.1 | Scott Linder | DWARF and source text embedding | Enhancement | Tony Tye | Open |
| 180426.2 | Paul T Robinson | Line table "comment" opcode | Enhancement | Tom Russell | Open |
| 180517.2 | Tom Tromey | Tagless variant parts | Enhancement | Open | |
| 181026.1 | Paul Robinson | Move DW_AT_entry_pc from split full to skeleton unit | Enhancement | Cary Coutant | Open |
| 181026.2 | Paul Robinson | Replace DW_FORM_strp_sup with strp_sup4 and strp_sup8 | Enhancement | Paul Robinson | Open |
| 181223.1 | Jordan Frost | Add Microsoft SourceLink support | Enhancement | Tony Tye | Open |
| 181223.2 | Jordan Frost | Adopt Microsoft's Symbol Server Key concept for elf and sym files | Enhancement | Eric Christopher | Open |
| 190407.2 | Shawn Landden | Allow debug functions that clarify which of a union is valid. | Enhancement | Eric Christopher | Open |
| 190809.1 | Tom Tromey | Standardize DW_AT_GNU_bias | Enhancement | Open | |
| 191107.1 | Chirag Patel | DW_OP_byte_swap | Enhancement | Andrew Cagney | Open |
| 200120.1 | Sergey Kuznetsov | Requesting DW_LANG_Crystal for Crystal Language | Enhancement | Michael Eager | Lang code assigned |
| 200609.1 | Paul T Robinson | Reserve an address value for "not present" | Enhancement | Tom Russell | Open |
| 200716.1 | David Blaikie | debug_macro header is missing a length prefix | Enhancement | David Blaikie | Open |
| 200720.1 | Markus Metzger | SIMD location expressions | Enhancement | Markus Metzger | Open |
| 200803.1 | Andrew Kelley | Add DW_LNS_jmp - modify file offset of line number program | Enhancement | Hafiz Abid Qadeer | Open |
| 201007.1 | Markus Metzger | Wide Registers in Location Description Expressions | Enhancement | Markus Metzger | Open |
| 210115.1 | H. Peter Anvin | Requesting a DW_lang_ code for the Netwide Assembler (NASM) | Enhancement | Michael Eager | Open |
| 210204.1 | Michael Eager | Create DW_LANG assignment registry | Enhancement | Michael Eager | Accepted with modification |
| 210208.1 | Jakub Jelinek | Add DW_LANG_C_plus_plus_17 and DW_LANG_C_plus_plus_20 | Enhancement | Michael Eager | Lang code assigned |
| 210208.2 | Tom Tromey | Standardize DW_AT_GNU_numerator and DW_AT_GNU_denominator | Enhancement | Cary Coutant | Open |
| 210218.2 | Tom Tromey | Generalize complex number support | Enhancement | Open | |
| 210219.1 | Tom Tromey | Representation of Rust type traits | Enhancement | Open | |
| 210305.1 | Jakub Jelinek | Split DW_AT_language into DW_AT_language and DW_AT_language_version | Enhancement | Open | |
| 210419.1 | Jakub Jelinek | Split DW_AT_language into DW_AT_language and DW_AT_language_version | Enhancement | Open | |
| 210514.1 | Stuart Brady | Add GPU shading and kernel languages | Enhancement | Michael Eager | Open |
| 161109.1 | Jakub Jelinek | No way to describe Fortran derived types with deferred length components | Error | Jakub Jelinek | Open |
| 181003.1 | Paul T Robinson | Forbid DW_OP_call_ref/DW_FORM_ref_addr in a .dwo section | Error | Jeremy Morse | Open |
| 200709.1 | Simon Marchi | DW_AT_rnglists_base in DW_TAG_skeleton_unit | Error | Mark Wielaard | Open |
| 180123.1 | Pierre-Marie de Rodat | Layout of discriminant entries in variant parts | Improvement | Open | |
| 180503.1 | Paul Robinson | Usage suggestion for LEB128 padding | Improvement | Paul Robinson | Open |
| 181026.3 | Paul Robinson | Don't forbid extensions to the dwp file | Improvement | Jeremy Morse | Open |
| 210113.1 | Paul Robinson | Zero-length entries in .debug_aranges | Improvement | Tom Russell | Open |
| 210219.2 | Tom Tromey | Differentiate between tuple and struct types for Rust | Improvement | Open | |
| 210429.1 | Ron Brender | Clarify Description of Line Number Table Extended Opcodes | Improvement | Ron Brender | Open |
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