Issues for DWARF Version 6
| Issue # | Title | Author | Champion | Type | Status | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 140906.1 | Two-Level Line Tables | Cary Coutant | Cary Coutant | Enhancement | Open | 2014-09-06 |
| 141117.1 | Arbitrary expressions as formal parameter default values | Adrian Prantl | Adrian Prantl | Enhancement | Accepted with modifications | 2022-10-21 |
| 161018.1 | DWARF-embedded source for online-compiled programs | Simon Brand | Tony Tye | Enhancement | Duplicate | 2021-08-17 |
| 161109.1 | No way to describe Fortran derived types with deferred length components | Jakub Jelinek | Jakub Jelinek | Error | Incomplete | 2016-11-09 |
| 161109.2 | Add DW_OP_call* alternative to refer to variable value | Jakub Jelinek | Jakub Jelinek | Enhancement | Incomplete | 2016-11-09 |
| 161206.2 | Clarify relationship between DW_OP_piece and DW_OP_bit_piece | Andreas Arnez | Adrian Prantl | Clarification | Rejected with clarification | 2021-03-22 |
| 170427.1 | Location View Numbering | Alexandre Oliva | Mark Wielaard | Enhancement | Open | 2017-04-27 |
| 170427.2 | Extending loclists | Alexandre Oliva | Ron Brender | Enhancement | Accepted | 2021-05-17 |
| 170427.3 | Extending loclists with common sublists | Alexandre Oliva | Mark Wielaard | Enhancement | Accepted | 2023-04-05 |
| 170503.1 | Adding DW_LANG_Kotlin constant in DW_AT_laguage attribute | Vasily Levchenko | Michael Eager | Enhancement | Lang code assigned | 2021-03-14 |
| 170527.1 | DW_IDX_* for static/extern symbols | Jan Kratochvil | Cary Coutant | Enhancement | Accepted | 2021-04-19 |
| 171103.1 | DW_AT_call_origin should be encoded as reference class, not an exprloc | Mark Wielaard | Mark Wielaard | Accepted | Accepted | 2021-10-04 |
| 171115.1 | DW_LANG_Zig | Andrew Kelley | Michael Eager | Enhancement | Lang code assigned | 2021-03-14 |
| 171130.1 | Typo - Regression since DWARF3 standard | Ben Dunbobbin | Ron Brender | Editorial | Accepted | 2021-02-22 |
| 171130.2 | Allow $ORIGIN in DW_AT_comp_dir | Thomas Anderson | Caroline Tice | Enhancement | Rejected | 2021-06-14 |
| 171216.1 | Extend DW_TAG_compile_unit entry with DW_TAG_hash_value | Aleksandr Povaliaev | Jini Susan George | Enhancement | Rejected | 2021-10-04 |
| 180123.1 | Layout of discriminant entries in variant parts | Pierre-Marie de Rodat | Hafiz Abid Qadeer | Improvement | Accepted | 2023-07-05 |
| 180201.1 | DWARF and source text embedding | Scott Linder | Tony Tye | Enhancement | Accepted with modifications | 2022-07-11 |
| 180326.1 | Clarify consistency of DWARF 32/64 format with a CU | Paul Robinson | Paul Robinson | Clarification | Accepted | 2021-06-28 |
| 180426.1 | Allow DW_FORM_strp_sup in .debug_line vendor defined content descriptions | Mark Wielaard | Mark Wielaard | Ambiguity | Accepted | 2021-10-04 |
| 180426.2 | Line table "comment" opcode | Paul T Robinson | Tom Russell | Enhancement | Accepted with modifications | 2021-06-14 |
| 180503.1 | Usage suggestion for LEB128 padding | Paul Robinson | Paul Robinson | Improvement | Accepted | 2021-05-17 |
| 180503.2 | DW_LANG_ code for Ada 2005 and Ada 2012 are missing | Sture Carlson | Michael Eager | Ambiguity | Lang code assigned | 2021-03-14 |
| 180517.1 | Variant parts without a discriminant | Tom Tromey | Jini Susan George | Clarification | Accepted with modifications | 2022-04-04 |
| 180517.2 | Tagless variant parts | Tom Tromey | Markus Metzger | Enhancement | Rejected | 2022-01-10 |
| 180613.1 | 0xffff in tables rendered with spaces | Andrew Cagney | Ron Brender | Editorial | Accepted | 2021-08-09 |
| 180625.1 | Inconsistent initial length description - missing reference and/or TMI | Andrew Cagney | Andrew Cagney | Editorial | Accepted | 2021-09-20 |
| 180914.1 | Line Number Program Header directories_count field missing note. | Paul Bowen-Huggett | Ron Brender | Editorial | Accepted | 2021-10-04 |
| 181003.1 | Forbid DW_OP_call_ref/DW_FORM_ref_addr in a .dwo section | Paul T Robinson | Jeremy Morse | Error | Accepted | 2022-08-08 |
| 181019.1 | Inconsistency in DW_AT_import descriptions | Paul Robinson | Paul Robinson | Clarification | Accepted | 2021-09-20 |
| 181026.1 | Move DW_AT_entry_pc from split full to skeleton unit | Paul Robinson | Cary Coutant | Enhancement | Rejected | 2021-08-09 |
| 181026.2 | Replace DW_FORM_strp_sup with strp_sup4 and strp_sup8 | Paul Robinson | Paul Robinson | Enhancement | Withdrawn | 2021-11-01 |
| 181026.3 | Don't forbid extensions to the dwp file | Paul Robinson | Jeremy Morse | Improvement | Accepted | 2023-07-05 |
| 181205.1 | Clarify DW_OP_piece documentation for parts of values that are optimized out | Greg Clayton | Adrian Prantl | Clarification | Accepted | 2021-11-01 |
| 181223.1 | Add source URL (was Add Microsoft SourceLink support) | Jordan Frost | Tony Tye | Enhancement | Accepted with modifications | 2022-08-22 |
| 181223.2 | Adopt Microsoft's Symbol Server Key concept for elf and sym files | Jordan Frost | Michael Eager | Enhancement | Rejected | 2022-10-31 |
| 190130.1 | Multiple headers in .debug_loclists and .debug_rnglists | Philip Craig | David Blaikie | Ambiguity | Duplicate | 2021-07-26 |
| 190225.1 | DW_AT_segment_attribute | James Harding | Zoran Zaric | Clarification | Closed | 2022-03-21 |
| 190407.1 | Adding Zig Language Attribute | Shawn Landden | Michael Eager | Editorial | Lang code assigned | 2021-03-02 |
| 190407.2 | Allow debug functions that clarify which of a union is valid. | Shawn Landden | Eric Christopher | Enhancement | Withdrawn (Incomplete) | 2023-11-13 |
| 190809.1 | Standardize DW_AT_GNU_bias | Tom Tromey | Brock Wyma | Enhancement | Accepted with modifications | 2022-07-05 |
| 191025.1 | DW_OP_bit_piece offset operand mostly does matter | Paul T Robinson | Paul T Robinson | Editorial | Accepted | 2021-05-17 |
| 191107.1 | DW_OP_byte_swap | Chirag Patel | Andrew Cagney | Enhancement | Rejected | 2021-11-01 |
| 200120.1 | Requesting DW_LANG_Crystal for Crystal Language | Sergey Kuznetsov | Michael Eager | Enhancement | Lang code assigned | 2021-03-14 |
| 200215.1 | Typo on http://dwarfstd.org/Comment.html | Gabor Greif | Michael Eager | Editorial | Accepted | 2021-02-22 |
| 200427.1 | Missing link in section relationships | Paul T Robinson | Ron Brender | Editorial | Accepted with modification | 2021-06-14 |
| 200505.1 | Introduction has spurious word unittype | David Anderson | Ron Brender | Editorial | Accepted | 2021-02-22 |
| 200505.2 | Lookup by name | David Anderson | Ron Brender | Editorial | Accepted | 2021-02-22 |
| 200505.3 | Index attribute encodings | David Anderson | Ron Brender | Editorial | Accepted | 2021-02-22 |
| 200505.4 | Augmentation string | David Anderson | Dave Anderson | Editorial | Accepted | 2022-05-16 |
| 200505.6 | State Machine Registers | David Anderson | Ron Brender | Editorial | Accepted | 2021-02-22 |
| 200505.7 | Declarations with reduced scope | David Anderson | Ron Brender | Editorial | Accepted | 2021-10-18 |
| 200519.1 | Missing comments for some links in figure B.2 | Igor Kudrin | Ron Brender | Editorial | Accepted with modification | 2021-06-14 |
| 200602.1 | .debug_macro.dwo can refer to .debug_line.dwo? | Paul T Robinson | Jeremy Morse | Clarification | Accepted | 2022-01-10 |
| 200609.1 | Reserve an address value for "not present" | Paul T Robinson | Tom Russell | Enhancement | Accepted | 2022-03-07 |
| 200709.1 | DW_AT_rnglists_base in DW_TAG_skeleton_unit | Simon Marchi | Simon Marchi | Error | Accepted | 2021-11-01 |
| 200710.1 | Inconsistent decription of data representation for the range list table. | Xing GUO | David Blaikie | Ambiguity | Accepted | 2021-08-09 |
| 200716.1 | debug_macro header is missing a length prefix | David Blaikie | David Blaikie | Enhancement | Open | 2021-07-09 |
| 200720.1 | SIMD location expressions | Markus Metzger | Markus Metzger | Enhancement | Withdrawn | 2021-12-06 |
| 200803.1 | Add DW_LNS_jmp - modify file offset of line number program | Andrew Kelley | Hafiz Abid Qadeer | Enhancement | Rejected | 2022-01-24 |
| 201007.1 | Wide Registers in Location Description Expressions | Markus Metzger | Markus Metzger | Enhancement | Accepted with modification | 2022-03-21 |
| 210113.1 | Zero-length entries in .debug_aranges | Paul Robinson | Tom Russell | Improvement | Accepted | 2022-03-07 |
| 210115.1 | Requesting a DW_lang_ code for the Netwide Assembler (NASM) | H. Peter Anvin | Enhancement | Accepted with modifications | 2023-04-19 | |
| 210204.1 | Create DW_LANG assignment registry | Michael Eager | Michael Eager | Enhancement | Accepted with modification | 2021-02-22 |
| 210208.1 | Add DW_LANG_C_plus_plus_17 and DW_LANG_C_plus_plus_20 | Jakub Jelinek | Michael Eager | Enhancement | Lang code assigned | 2021-03-14 |
| 210208.2 | Standardize DW_AT_GNU_numerator and DW_AT_GNU_denominator | Tom Tromey | Cary Coutant | Enhancement | Accepted with modifications | 2022-05-02 |
| 210218.1 | Index entry shows up in PDF | Tom Tromey | Ron Brender | Editorial | Accepted | 2021-09-20 |
| 210218.2 | Generalize complex number support | Tom Tromey | Zoran Zaric | Enhancement | Accepted | 2023-01-23 |
| 210219.1 | Representation of Rust type traits | Tom Tromey | Jian Xu | Enhancement | Rejected | 2022-03-21 |
| 210219.2 | Differentiate between tuple and struct types for Rust | Tom Tromey | Fāng-ruì Sòng | Improvement | Incomplete | 2021-02-19 |
| 210305.1 | Split DW_AT_language into DW_AT_language and DW_AT_language_version | Jakub Jelinek | Jakub Jelinek | Enhancement | Withdrawn | 2021-07-19 |
| 210310.1 | Clarify DW_AT_rnglists_base and DW_FORM_rnglistx in Split DWARF | David Blaikie | Jonas Devlieghere | Ambiguity | Accepted | 2022-03-21 |
| 210314.1 | Eliminate all indefinite antecedent | David Anderson | Ron Brender | Editorial | Accepted | 2022-02-07 |
| 210419.1 | Split DW_AT_language into DW_AT_language and DW_AT_language_version | Jakub Jelinek | Jakub Jelinek | Enhancement | Accepted | 2022-06-13 |
| 210429.1 | Clarify Description of Line Number Table Extended Opcodes | Ron Brender | Ron Brender | Editorial | Accepted | 2022-03-22 |
| 210514.1 | Add GPU shading and kernel languages | Stuart Brady | Tony Tye | Enhancement | Accepted | 2023-10-23 |
| 210622.1 | .debug_rnglists section header description | David Anderson | Ron Brender | Editorial | Accepted | 2022-04-04 |
| 210628.1 | Clarification of relative paths in DW_AT_comp_dir | Caroline Tice | Caroline Tice | Clarification | Accepted with modifications | 2021-08-09 |
| 210711.1 | debug_names wording inconsistency | David Anderson | David Anderson | Ambiguity | Withdrawn | 2021-07-18 |
| 210713.1 | Fix "file 0" | Paul Robinson | Paul Robinson | Improvement | Accepted | 2022-07-25 |
| 211004.1 | Replace DW_MACRO_define/undef_sup with sized versions | Paul Robinson | Jeremy Morse | Enhancement | Accepted with modifications | 2022-10-31 |
| 211005.1 | Interaction of DW_OP_piece (and similar) and DW_OP_call2 (and similar) | Allen Webster | Adrian Prantl | Clarification | Open | 2021-10-05 |
| 211022.1 | Empty range list entry | David Anderson | David Anderson | Clarification | Accepted with modifications | 2022-08-08 |
| 211101.1 | Allow 64-bit string offsets in DWARF-32 | Paul Robinson | Paul Robinson | Enhancement | Accepted | 2022-05-21 |
| 211102.1 | No DW_FORM_strp in .dwo files | Paul Robinson | David Blaikie | Error | Accepted | 2022-10-31 |
| 211103.1 | Call site entries for optimized out functions | Ben Woodard | Jakub Jelinek | Clarification | Accepted with modification | 2022-11-14 |
| 211108.1 | Add DW_AT_artificial for DW_TAG_typedef | Luis Ferreira | Hafiz Abid Qadeer | Clarification | Accepted | 2023-06-12 |
| 211108.2 | Allow Non-Uniform Record Formats in the File Name Table | Cary Coutant | Cary Coutant | Enhancement | Accepted with modifications | 2022-07-25 |
| 211206.1 | SIMD location descriptions | Markus Metzger | Markus Metzger | Enhancement | Open | 2023-09-11 |
| 211206.2 | Stack piece operators | Markus Metzger | Markus Metzger | Enhancement | Open | 2023-09-11 |
| 220212.1 | Disambiguate "ending address/offset" in location lists and range lists | Ron Brender | Ron Brender | Editorial | Accepted with editorial changes | 2022-10-31 |
| 220304.1 | Allow MD5 hash to be optional in the line table | Tony Tye | Tony Tye | Enhancement | Rejected | 2022-11-14 |
| 220427.1 | Deprecate the DW_AT_segment attribute | Zoran Zaric | Zoran Zaric | Enhancement | Accepted with modifications | 2022-07-25 |
| 220513.1 | No way to represent Java bytecode index in source information | David Lloyd | Jini Susan George | Enhancement | Incomplete | 2022-05-13 |
| 220706.1 | Default Locations for Pieces of a Composite Location Description | Cary Coutant | Cary Coutant | Enhancement | Open | 2023-04-03 |
| 220708.1 | Remove edge (fo) from Figure B.2 | David Blaikie | David Blaikie | Error | Accepted | 2022-11-14 |
| 220708.2 | .debug_{c,t}u_index missing/incomplete DWARF64 support | David Blaikie | David Blaikie | Enhancement | Accepted with modifications | 2023-01-23 |
| 220711.1 | Name Table index attribute | David Anderson | David Anderson | Editorial | Accepted | 2022-11-14 |
| 220711.2 | Name Table Figure 6.1 | David Anderson | David Anderson | Editorial | Accepted | 2022-11-14 |
| 220713.1 | Name Table Figure 6.1 page 140 | David Anderson | David Anderson | Editorial | Accepted | 2023-04-03 |
| 220724.1 | Remove .debug_aranges and require unit-level ranges/high/low | David Blaikie | David Blaikie | Improvement | Accepted pending revised wording | 2023-04-18 |
| 220802.1 | Introduce DW_FORM_addr_offset paired form | David Blaikie | David Blaikie | Enhancement | Accepted with modifications | 2023-01-23 |
| 220824.1 | Use uniform encoding of DWARF expressions in CFI instructions | Serhii Huralnik | Brock Wyma | Ambiguity | Accepted with editorial changes | 2023-06-12 |
| 221031.1 | Future-proof text from 211102.1 | Paul Robinson | Paul Robinson | Editorial | Accepted | 2023-01-23 |
| 221105.1 | Add a mechanism for specifying subprogram return value locations | Kyle Huey | Andrew Cagney | Enhancement | Open | 2023-07-24 |
| 221114.1 | DW_FORM_implicit_const and DW_FORM_indirect | David Anderson | David Anderson | Error | Accepted with editorial changes | 2023-07-08 |
| 221118.1 | Name Table 6.1.1.4.8 | David Anderson | David Anderson | Editorial | Accepted | 2023-06-26 |
| 221203.1 | Remove suggestion that DW_FORM_sec_offset may not be used for lists in splitunit | David Blaikie | David Blaikie | Error | Open | 2023-10-30 |
| 230103.1 | Clarify that DW_CFA_remember_state includes the current CFA | Fangrui Song | Fangrui Song | Clarification | Accepted | 2023-07-24 |
| 230109.1 | Values for optimized out arguments | Jakub Jelinek | Jakub Jelinek | Enhancement | Deferred | 2023-10-02 |
| 230109.2 | Inferior calls in DWARF expressions | Jakub Jelinek | Jakub Jelinek | Enhancement | Deferred | 2023-10-02 |
| 230120.1 | DW_OP_call_ref & DW_OP_implicit_pointer Correction | Tony Tye | Tony Tye | Error | Accepted | 2023-10-23 |
| 230120.2 | Clarifications for Location Descriptions | Tony Tye | Tony Tye | Clarification | Open | 2023-01-20 |
| 230120.3 | Extend Memory Location Descriptions | Tony Tye | Tony Tye | Improvement | Open | 2023-01-20 |
| 230120.4 | Add the HIP Programing Language | Tony Tye | Michael Eager | Enhancement | Lang code assigned | 2023-02-02 |
| 230203.1 | C# Language ID | Rafael Fryer | Enhancement | Accepted | 2023-02-03 | |
| 230206.1 | Add DW_AT_imported_declaration entries to name index | Michael Buch | David Blaikie | Improvement | Open | 2023-10-30 |
| 230223.1 | Tidy up location description description | Paul Robinson | Editorial | Accepted | 2023-07-21 | |
| 230223.2 | Locations evaluated independently | Paul Robinson | Improvement | Open | 2023-02-23 | |
| 230224.1 | Include enumerators from non-enum-class enumerations in debug_names | David Blaikie | David Blaikie | Improvement | Open | 2023-11-27 |
| 230324.1 | Expression Operation Vendor Extensibility Opcode | Scott Linder | Enhancement | Open | 2023-03-24 | |
| 230329.1 | Tables which have a unit_length header field must be contiguous | Keith Walker | Keith Walker | Clarification | Accepted | 2023-11-27 |
| 230412.1 | Ambiguity in Static and Dynamic Values of Attributes (was DW_AT_string_length) | Cary Coutant | Cary Coutant | Clarification | Open | 2023-11-24 |
| 230413.1 | Tensor Types | Ben Woodard | Zoran Zaric | Enhancement | Accepted | 2023-11-13 |
| 230414.1 | Eliminate last use of "location expression" | Ron Brender | Ron Brender | Editorial | Accepted | 2023-07-21 |
| 230502.1 | New language name for Mojo | Walter Erquinigo | Enhancement | Lang code assigned | 2023-06-08 | |
| 230524.1 | Location Descriptions on the DWARF Stack | Tony Tye, Cary Coutant | Cary Coutant | Enhancement | Open | 2023-05-24 |
| 230529.1 | Bit-precise Integer Types | Jakub Jelinek | Jakub Jelinek | Enhancement | Accepted | 2023-11-27 |
| 230529.2 | Outlined Subroutines | Jakub Jelinek | Jakub Jelinek | Enhancement | Open | 2023-11-27 |
| 230530.1 | Data Sharing Attribute | Jakub Jelinek | Jakub Jelinek | Enhancement | Open | 2023-05-30 |
| 230616.1 | New Form Classes for Values vs. Location Descriptions | Cary Coutant | Cary Coutant | Clarification | Accepted | 2023-10-23 |
| 230712.1 | Register Segment Name Type | Ron Brender | Ron Brender | Concept | Open | 2023-07-12 |
| 230712.2 | Complete Record Objects Allocated in Registers | Ron Brender | Ron Brender | Concept | Open | 2023-07-12 |
| 230712.3 | Object Components Promoted to Registers | Ron Brender | Ron Brender | Concept | Open | 2023-07-12 |
| 230712.4 | Vector Segments Mapped to Registers | Ron Brender | Ron Brender | Concept | Open | 2023-07-12 |
| 230808.1 | DW_OP_entry_value description and examples | Paul Robinson | Paul Robinson | Error | Accepted | 2023-11-13 |
| 231013.1 | Tombstoning TU entries in .debug_names | David Blaikie | David Blaikie | Enhancement | Open | 2023-10-13 |
| 231110.1 | DWARF Extension Registry | Ben Woodard | Mark Wielaard | Enhancement | Open | 2023-11-10 |
Status codes:
- Open: The issue is open, and is being discussed or is pending evaluation.
- Incomplete: The issue is open, but is awaiting revision by its author or its champion.
- Accepted: The issue was evaluated and the proposal was accepted without change.
- Accepted pending revision: The issue was evaluated and the proposal provisionally accepted, pending submission of revised wording.
- Accepted with modifications: The issue was evaluated and the proposal was accepted with modifications or a substitute proposal was accepted.
- Closed: The issue was closed without modification to the standard.
- Duplicate: The issue is a duplicate of another issue.
- Deferred: The issue will be reconsidered at a later time.
- Rejected: The issue was evaluated but the proposal was not accepted.
- Withdrawn: The issue was withdrawn by its author.
- Lang code assigned: The issue was a request for a new language code, which has been assigned. (See Current language codes)
A detailed description of the resolution of each issue is listed at the bottom of each resolved issue.
