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Re:LLVM 11.0 by jmorse2 on Monday October 12, 2020 @03:32PM (#24758467)
It's DWARF-5 only: variable values can be expressed in terms of a parameters value on entry to the function. Depending on the circumstances, that value can be recovered from further up the stack frame.

(Ninja edit: although tuning for GDB might coax LLVM to emit the pre-standardised form, without DWARF-5).

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Re:LLVM 11.0 by xxpor on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @02:11PM (#24768137)
When I have to debug a production crash (compiled with -O3), that's usually what I do today. Basically, the value can be derived from something that's static/global, eventually. Now that I think about it though, I'm kind of surprised gdb hasn't done that for me historically, but maybe the debug info isn't detailed enough and I can do it just because I can read the actual source.
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