[PATCH] binutils: Run PR binutils/26160 test

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Tue Nov 1 01:02:07 GMT 2022


On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 5:25 PM Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 05:08:04PM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 4:04 PM Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 09:24:07AM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> > > > Here is the patch to run the test.  But it failed with
> > > >
> > > > readelf: Warning: Cannot fetch indexed address: the .debug_addr
> > > > section is missing
> > > >
> > > > Is this warning valid?
> > >
> > > Well, yes, because according to https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/DebugFission
> > > .debug_addr is found in the "linked binary".  I think the testcase is
> > > incomplete without that object file.
> >
> > readelf output has been changed.   Here is the patch
> > to run PR binutils/26160 test.
>
> Can we please have the .o file too rather than accepting a warning?
> That would better test readelf's handling of .dwp files.

The readelf input was generated by dwp which was the part of gold.
There is no .o file.

> Also, I think it would be nicer if the .dwp file was not compressed,
> so that the test would run without bzip2 being installed.  It isn't
> very large.
>

Since there are other binaries compressed with bzip2, the .dwp
file doesn't resolve this issue.

-- 
H.J.


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