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docs: Update the MSVCCompatibility doc for changes to debug info 

The document should reflect that we now support emission for DWARF.

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David Majnemer 2014-11-25 06:59:35 +00:00
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@ -72,11 +72,14 @@ The status of major ABI-impacting C++ features:
.. _/vm: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/yad46a6z.aspx
.. _pointer to a member of a virtual base class: http://llvm.org/PR15713
* Debug info: :partial:`Minimal`. Clang emits CodeView line tables into the
object file, similar to what MSVC emits when given the ``/Z7`` flag.
Microsoft's link.exe will read this information and use it to create a PDB,
* Debug info: :partial:`Minimal`. Clang emits both CodeView line tables
(similar to what MSVC emits when given the ``/Z7`` flag) and DWARF debug
information into the object file.
Microsoft's link.exe will transform the CodeView line tables into a PDB,
enabling stack traces in all modern Windows debuggers. Clang does not emit
any type info or description of variable layout.
any CodeView-compatible type info or description of variable layout.
Binaries linked with either binutils' ld or LLVM's lld should be usable with
GDB however sophisticated C++ expressions are likely to fail.
* RTTI: :good:`Complete`. Generation of RTTI data structures has been
finished, along with support for the ``/GR`` flag.