semantic error: libdwfl failure (dwarf_highpc): no error thrown

[Mark Wielaard]

On Fri, 2014-08-29 at 16:09 +0100, Peter Saunderson wrote:
> I seem to have an ARM ELF file parse problem with systemtap.  I am using
> 
> Systemtap translator/driver (version 2.5/0.148 [...]
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Looks like you are using elfutils 0.148. That is fairly old (released
more than 4 years ago). Latest elfutils release is 0.160.

> semantic error: libdwfl failure (dwarf_highpc): no error   thrown from: 
> /home/pas/Sources/platform/meta-yocto-oina/yocto/build_oxinst/tmp/work/armv7at2hf-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/systemtap/2.5+gitAUTOINC+ae91e3d552-r0/git/dwarf_wrappers.cxx:30

That might be:

        libdw: dwarf_highpc function now handles DWARF 4 DW_AT_high_pc
        constant form.

Fixed in elfutils 0.154.

Cheers,

Mark