[ob/pushed] Fix pedantically invalid DWARF in gdb.trace/unavailable-dwarf-piece.exp

Pedro Alves pedro@palves.net
Thu Jul 7 12:28:43 GMT 2022


The DWARF spec says:

  Any debugging information entry representing the declaration of an object,
  module, subprogram or type may have DW_AT_decl_file, DW_AT_decl_line and
  DW_AT_decl_column attributes, each of whose value is an unsigned integer
							  ^^^^^^^^
  constant.

Grepping around the DWARF-assembler-based testcases, I noticed that
gdb.trace/unavailable-dwarf-piece.exp emits decl_line with
DW_FORM_sdata, a signed integer form.  This commit tweaks it to use
DW_FORM_udata instead.

Unsurprisingly, this:

  $ make check \
      TESTS="gdb.trace/unavailable-dwarf-piece.exp" \
      RUNTESTFLAGS="--target_board=native-gdbserver"

... still passes cleanly for me after this change.

I've noticed this because current llvm-dwarfdump crashed on an
ROCm-internal DWARF-assembler-based testcase that incorrectly used
signed forms for DW_AT_decl_file/DW_AT_decl_line.

The older llvm-dwarfdump found on Ubuntu 20.04 (LLVM 10) reads the
line numbers with signed forms as "0" instead of crashing.  Here's the
before/after fix for gdb.trace/unavailable-dwarf-piece.exp with that
llvm-dwarfdump version:

  $ diff -up before.txt after.txt
  --- before.txt    2022-07-07 13:21:28.387690334 +0100
  +++ after.txt     2022-07-07 13:21:39.379801092 +0100
  @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
		   DW_AT_name     ("s")
		   DW_AT_byte_size        (3)
		   DW_AT_decl_file        (0)
  -                DW_AT_decl_line        (0)
  +                DW_AT_decl_line        (1)

   0x0000002f:     DW_TAG_member
		     DW_AT_name   ("a")
  @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
		   DW_AT_name     ("t")
		   DW_AT_byte_size        (3)
		   DW_AT_decl_file        (0)
  -                DW_AT_decl_line        (0)
  +                DW_AT_decl_line        (1)

   0x00000054:     DW_TAG_member
		     DW_AT_name   ("a")

Change-Id: I5c866946356da421ff944019d0eca2607b2b738f
---
 gdb/testsuite/gdb.trace/unavailable-dwarf-piece.exp | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.trace/unavailable-dwarf-piece.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.trace/unavailable-dwarf-piece.exp
index c6b1382e9b1..f80f8005fcf 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.trace/unavailable-dwarf-piece.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.trace/unavailable-dwarf-piece.exp
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ Dwarf::assemble $asm_file {
 		{name s}
 		{byte_size 3 DW_FORM_sdata}
 		{decl_file 0 DW_FORM_udata}
-		{decl_line 1 DW_FORM_sdata}
+		{decl_line 1 DW_FORM_udata}
 	    } {
 		DW_TAG_member {
 		    {name a}
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ Dwarf::assemble $asm_file {
 		{name t}
 		{byte_size 3 DW_FORM_sdata}
 		{decl_file 0 DW_FORM_udata}
-		{decl_line 1 DW_FORM_sdata}
+		{decl_line 1 DW_FORM_udata}
 	    } {
 		DW_TAG_member {
 		    {name a}

base-commit: 83f477f25ad63ea9f2e5e5fc9c0a7297a46a7a21
-- 
2.36.0



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