More in-depth documentation for the new debuginfo options

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/llvm/ffi.rs b/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/llvm/ffi.rs
index aff352abab4..556c6602ff4 100644
--- a/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/llvm/ffi.rs
+++ b/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/llvm/ffi.rs
@@ -951,6 +951,16 @@ pub mod debuginfo {
 
     impl DebugEmissionKind {
         pub fn from_generic(kind: rustc_session::config::DebugInfo) -> Self {
+            // We should be setting LLVM's emission kind to `LineTablesOnly` if
+            // we are compiling with "limited" debuginfo. However, some of the
+            // existing tools relied on slightly more debuginfo being generated than
+            // would be the case with `LineTablesOnly`, and we did not want to break
+            // these tools in a "drive-by fix", without a good idea or plan about
+            // what limited debuginfo should exactly look like. So for now we are
+            // instead adding a new debuginfo option "line-tables-only" so as to
+            // not break anything and to allow users to have 'limited' debug info.
+            //
+            // See https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/60020 for details.
             use rustc_session::config::DebugInfo;
             match kind {
                 DebugInfo::None => DebugEmissionKind::NoDebug,