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When using -Csplit-debuginfo=packed on Linux, rustc will produce a dwp file. Unlike the dwo files, whose paths are embedded into the binary, there's no information in the binary to help a debugger locate a dwp file. By convention, the dwp file for <EXE> is given the name <EXE>.dwp and placed next to <EXE>. When cargo hardlinks the executable file rustc put in target/debug/deps into target/debug, it also needs to hardlink the dwp file along with it. Failing to do this prevents the debugger from finding the dwp file when the binary is executed from target/debug, as there's no way for the debugger to know to look in the deps subdirectory.