Without -dwarf-version, llvm-mc uses the default MCContext::DwarfVersion 4.
Without -gdwarf-N, Clang cc1as uses clang::driver::ToolChain::GetDefaultDwarfVersion
which is 4 on many toolchains. Note: clang -c can synthesize .debug_info without -g.
There is currently a MCParser warning upon .file 0 and MCParser errors upon
.loc 0 if the DWARF version is less than 5. This causes friction to the
following usage:
clang -S -g -gdwarf-5 a.c // MC warning due to .file 0, MC error due to .loc 0 clang -c a.s llvm-mc -filetype=obj a.s
My idea is that we can just upgrade MCContext::DwarfVersion to 5 upon
.file 0 to make the above commands work.
The downside is that for an explicit version clang -c -gdwarf-4 a.s, it can be
argued that the new behavior drops the probably intended diagnostic. I think the
downside is small because in most cases DWARF version for an assembly action
should either match the original compile action or be omitted.
Ongoing discussion taking a similar action for GNU as: https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2021-January/114980.html