On Fri, 5 Feb 2021 12:22:18 -0800 Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We expect toolchains to produce these new debug info sections as part of > DWARF v5. Add explicit placements to prevent the linker warnings from > --orphan-section=warn. > > Compilers may produce such sections with explicit -gdwarf-5, or based on > the implicit default version of DWARF when -g is used via DEBUG_INFO. > This implicit default changes over time, and has changed to DWARF v5 > with GCC 11. > > .debug_sup was mentioned in review, but without compilers producing it > today, let's wait to add it until it becomes necessary. > There isn't anything in this changelog which explains why a -stable backport was requested? Or is there? Irritating linker warnings? More than that?