[PATCH 03/14] libdw: Handle DW_AT_ranges in split DWARF 5 skeleton in dwarf_ranges
Mark Wielaard
mark@klomp.org
Tue Oct 3 16:10:59 GMT 2023
Hi Omar,
On Wed, 2023-09-27 at 11:20 -0700, Omar Sandoval wrote:
> From: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
>
> When commit 879f3a4f99df ("libdw: Handle .debug_rnglists in
> dwarf_ranges.") added support for split DWARF 5 in 2018, GCC put all
> range lists for split DWARF in the .debug_rnglists section of the
> skeleton file (similarly to GNU DebugFission, which puts all range lists
> in .debug_ranges in the skeleton file).
>
> In 2021, after a discussion on the dwarf-discuss mailing list [1], GCC
> changed this to match Clang's behavior. Now, ranges are in
> .debug_rnglists.dwo in the split file, _except_ for one: the skeleton
> unit DIE has a DW_AT_ranges attribute, and its ranges are in
> .debug_rnglists in the skeleton file. See GCC commit 4b33c5aaab9e
> ("dwarf2out: Fix up ranges for -gdwarf-5 -gsplit-dwarf [PR99490]") and
> the Issue 210310.1 clarifying the DWARF standard [2].
>
> Unfortunately, this confuses dwarf_ranges, which always uses
> .debug_rnglists.dwo if it exists. Fix it by special casing the unit
> DIE: its range lists should be in .debug_rnglists if that exists, and
> .debug_rnglists.dwo otherwise.
>
> 1: https://lists.dwarfstd.org/pipermail/dwarf-discuss/2021-March/002009.html
> 2: https://dwarfstd.org/issues/210310.1.html
Thanks for all these references in the commit message.
With that the 2 line change looks good. Applied.
Thanks,
Mark
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