From the press release: "Version 5 incorporates improvements in many areas: better data compression, separation of debugging data from executable files, improv

From the press release: "Version 5 incorporates improvements in many areas: better data compression, separation of debugging data from executable files, improved description of macros and source files, faster searching for symbols, improved debugging of optimized code, as well as numerous improvements in functionality and performance." Detailed summary of the changes: http://www.dwarfstd.org/Dwarf5Std.php http://www.dwarfstd.org/Dwarf5Std.php