Re: [PATCH 1/2] ld: Add --pdb option

["Martin Storsjö" <martin@martin.st>]

Hi Mark,

On Mon, 3 Oct 2022, Mark Harmstone wrote:

> This patch adds the --pdb option to ld when linking PE files, which
> augments the existing CodeView record used for build IDs by adding a PDB
> filename. If no filename is provided, this defaults to the image name
> with the extension replaced by "pdb".

As I assume you're aware, lld's mingw port also supports PDB generation - 
and the description of this option also sounds like it's chosen to match 
lld's option for outputting PDB files - that's good!

The testcase only seemed to exercise the form --pdb=<explicitname>, so I 
thought I'd ask just for clarity: I guess the other forms of specifying 
the option, e.g. "--pdb <explicitname>" also does the same - same thing 
for setting the option with just one leading dash, "-pdb=<explicitname>" 
(I guess it's a getopt feature that allows that as long as it isn't 
ambiguous with single-letter options?), as well as the form "-pdb=" or 
"--pdb=" for requesting it to set the default name?

// Martin