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Add support for DWARF version 5 and complete support for 4

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp
Domain
compilers, devtools

Research direction

The issue names no files or tests; start by locating the existing DWARF version 4 handling and support for the listed sections: .debug_types, .debug_frame, .debug_loc, .debug_ranges, .debug_pubnames, .debug_pubtypes, and .debug_macinfo. Done means completing those version 4 sections and adding DWARF version 5 support.

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Description

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LibObjectFile only support version 4, but partially:

  • Version 4: support for .debug_types, .debug_frame, .debug_loc, .debug_ranges, .debug_pubnames, .debug_pubtypes, .debug_macinfo section
  • Version 5

Version 5 is quite massive to support.

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