Planned Upgrades to Debug Info Support

[adinn]

TL;DR

The following tasks are outstanding:

• Implement debug info generation for truffle-based images at runtime
• Add debugging capabilities for MacOS (Mach-O) #8054
• Implement debug type and local var info generation on Windows
• Improve Linux debug info support for Linux tools (perf and valgrind)

Goals

• Enable high quality debugging on all supported OSes equivalent to that available on Linux/gdb as far as possible.
• Enable high quality analysis of code performance and memory usage via Linux tools that employ debug info

Non-Goals

• Not currently expecting to support debug capabilities beyond those available on Linux/gdb.

[jerboaa]

Implement debug type and local var info generation on Windows

PR for this is here? #3732

[adinn]

Implement debug type and local var info generation on Windows

PR for this is here? #3732

Yes, I believe that PR includes all that was planned by way of functionality. It will probably also need some doc updates.

• Improve Linux debug info support for Linux tools (perf and valgrind)

n.b. The PR which completes this task is #4950

[stooke]

Implement debug type and local var info generation on Windows

PR for this is here? #3732

#3732 does not include local var support. That's coming up next.

[fniephaus]

Debugging support for macOS is potentially coming via #8054.