Issues for DWARF Version 4

Issue # Title Author Champion Type Status Updated
040928.1 Add Address Size to Frame Info Don Darling Jim Blandy Extension Accepted 2004-09-28
060615.1 Address size clarification Stephane Chauveau Clarification Closed 2006-06-15
070426.1 Constant expressions in location lists Cary Coutant Extension Accepted 2007-04-26
070426.2 Support bundled instructions Cary Coutant Extension Accepted 2007-04-26
070512.1 Clarify location expressions Dave Anderson Dave Anderson Editorial Accepted with modifications 2007-05-12
070516.1 Section offset FORMs Ron Brender Ron Brender Extension Accepted 2007-05-16
070519.1 Line table support for VLIW Michael Eager Michael Eager Extension Rejected 2007-05-19
070619.1 Identify main function Chris Quenelle/Michael Eager Michael Eager Extension Accepted with modifications 2007-06-19
070709.1 Segment terminology cleanup Jim Blandy Jim Blandy Editorial Accepted 2007-07-09
070716.1 Encode High-PC as constant offset from Low-PC Todd Allen Todd Allen Extension Accepted 2007-07-16
071227.1 Calculate value in DWARF expression John Bishop Bishop/Blandy Extension Accepted with changes 2007-12-27
080112.1 FORM Reform Proposal 1: Reference Class Forms Cary Coutant Cary Coutant Extension Rejected 2008-01-12
080112.2 FORM Reform Proposal 2: Block Class Forms and Expressions Cary Coutant Cary Coutant Extension Accepted with changes 2008-01-12
080112.3 FORM Reform Proposal 3: Implicit Flag Form Cary Coutant Cary Coutant Extension Accepted with changes 2008-01-12
080128.1 Clarify recommendations for filenames Cary Coutant Cary Coutant Improvement Accepted with modification 2008-01-28
080205.1 Location List inconsistency? Julian Seward Ambiguity Closed -- explanation 2008-02-05
080404.1 Calculate value in DWARF expression Cary Coutant Coutant Extension Rejected 2008-04-04
080422.1 default lower bound of DW_TAG_subrange_type for Ada Joel Brobecker Extension Accepted 2008-04-22
080516.1 Default Array Lower Bounds Ron Brender Ron Brender Extension Accepted 2008-05-16
080621.1 Sharing Abbreviations David Anderson Anderson Clarification Accepted 2008-06-21
080622.1 Multiple entry stack values Ron Brender Brender Clarification Accepted 2008-06-22
080930.1 Using COMDAT Sections to Reduce the Size of DWARF Debug Information Cary Coutant Cary Coutant Enhancement Accepted 2008-09-30
081130.1 Packed unaligned bit fields Ron Brender Ron Brender Enhancement Accepted 2008-11-30
081211.1 Allow DW_AT_bit_size like DW_AT_byte_size Ron Brender Ron Brender Enhancement Accepted 2008-12-11
090106.1 Support C++0x r-value reference Kendrick Wong Kendrick Wong Enhancement Accepted 2009-01-06
090107.1 Support C++0x generalized constant expression - user-defined literal Kendrick Wong Kendrick Wong Enhancement Accepted 2009-01-07
090107.2 Support C++0x Variadic templates Kendrick Wong Kendrick Wong Enhancement Rejected 2009-01-07
090109.1 Support C++0x new string literals Kendrick Wong Kendrick Wong Enhancement Accepted 2009-01-09
090112.1 Support C++0x template aliases Kendrick Wong Kendrick Wong Enhancement Accepted 2009-01-12
090128.1 Line Number Table to Support Profiling Cary Coutant Cary Coutant Enhancement Accepted with modifications 2009-01-28
090303.1 Support C++0x strongly typed enumerations Kendrick Wong Kendrick Wong Enhancement Accepted with modifications 2009-03-03
090321.1 DW_AT_declaration inheritance by DW_AT_specification Jan Kratochvil John Bishop Ambiguity Accepted with modifications 2009-03-21
090402.1 DWARF support for overlays John DelSignore John DelSignore Clarification Rejected 2009-04-02
090402.2 Clarify DW_TAG_condition_name Paul Robinson Paul Robinson Editorial Accepted 2009-04-02
090406.1 Template types Todd Allen Todd Allen Clarification Accepted 2009-04-06
090503.1 DW_OP_linkage_name and DW_OP_linkage_name_ptr operations Ron Brender Ron Brender Enhancement Rejected 2009-05-03
090707.1 Template types appendix Todd Allen Todd Allen Editorial Accepted with modifications 2009-07-07
090715.1 Add a DW_AT_linkage_name attribute Ron Brender Ron Brender Enhancement Accepted with modifications 2009-07-15
090720.1 Add DW_LANG_Python Cary Coutant Cary Coutant Enhancement Accepted 2009-07-20
100308.1 Typo, pg 37 David Gross David Gross Editorial Accepted 2010-03-08
100308.2 Typo, pg 48 David Gross David Gross Editorial Accepted 2010-03-08
100308.3 Typo, pg 110 David Gross David Gross Editorial Accepted 2010-03-08
100308.4 Typo, pg 188 David Gross David Gross Editorial Accepted 2010-03-08
100308.5 Typo, pg 236 David Gross David Gross Editorial Accepted 2010-03-08
100308.6 Typo, pg 151 David Gross David Gross Editorial Rejected 2010-03-08
100308.7 Typo, pg 281 David Gross David Gross Editorial Accepted 2010-03-08
100308.8 Type signatures for function definitions David Gross David Gross Clarification Accepted with modifications 2010-03-08
100316.1 Errors in 6.4.2.2, 6.4.3.3 David Anderson David Anderson Editorial Accepted 2010-03-16
100416.1 Static and Dynamic Values unclear reference+exprloc Jan Kratochvil Clarification Accepted 2010-04-16
100416.2 DW_AT_lower_bound default for DW_LANG_Python Jakub Jelinek Ambiguity Accepted 2010-04-16
100419.1 DW_ATE_UTF Jakub Jelinek Ambiguity Accepted 2010-04-19
100419.2 Typo in Figure 76 Jakub Jelinek Editorial Accepted 2010-04-19
100419.3 Index doesn't reference DW_ATE_decimal_float on page 77 Jakub Jelinek Editorial Accepted 2010-04-19
100419.4 DW_AT_linkage_name for DW_TAG_member Jakub Jelinek Clarification Answered 2010-04-19
100421.1 DW_AT_linkage_name for DW_TAG_common_block Jakub Jelinek Clarification Accepted 2010-04-21
100423.1 Abstract root clarification David Anderson Editorial Accepted 2010-04-23
100427.1 formatting error in 6.4.2.2 enumerated list, items 5/6 Roland McGrath Editorial Accepted 2010-04-27
100427.2 clarify CFA ops "keep the old register/offset" cases vs DWARF expression case Roland McGrath Clarification Accepted 2010-04-27
100517.1 Implicit location descriptions not mentioned in DW_OP_bit_piece description Jakub Jelinek Clarification Accepted 2010-05-17
101203.1 Describing Fortran descriptors Kendrick Wong Kendrick Wong Enhancement Withdrawn 2010-12-03

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