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-rw-r--r--Makefile3
-rw-r--r--lib/Kconfig.debug9
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index e5a269465f99..2fd21a58f5cf 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -691,6 +691,9 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -g
endif
KBUILD_AFLAGS += -Wa,-gdwarf-2
endif
+ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -gdwarf-4,)
+endif
ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -femit-struct-debug-baseonly) \
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 910355da9d14..d70f203ce710 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -158,6 +158,15 @@ config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT
to know about the .dwo files and include them.
Incompatible with older versions of ccache.
+config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
+ bool "Generate dwarf4 debuginfo"
+ depends on DEBUG_INFO
+ help
+ Generate dwarf4 debug info. This requires recent versions
+ of gcc and gdb. It makes the debug information larger.
+ But it significantly improves the success of resolving
+ variables in gdb on optimized code.
+
config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED
bool "Enable __deprecated logic"
default y