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3.1 Encoding Protocol and Producer Versions ¶

The version note encodes the version of the Watermark specification used and the version of the tool used to generate the notes. Typically the protocol version will be 3 or 4 and the plugin version will be 11 or 12. It also encodes the tool used to generate the notes as a single character. The following characters are used:

L

The notes have been produced by the Clang plugin.

V

The notes have been produced by the LLVM plugin.

a

The notes have been produced by the assembler.

c

The notes have been produced by the gcc plugin for the .text.cold section.

e

The notes have been produced by the gcc plugin for the .text.exit section.

g

The notes have been produced by the gcc plugin when running in LTO mode.

h

The notes have been produced by the gcc plugin for the .text.hot section.

l

The notes have been produced by the linker.

p

The notes have been produced by the gcc plugin.

s

The notes have been produced by the gcc plugin for the .text.startup section.