Re: ERROR: INT DW_ATE_unsigned_1 Error emitting BTF type

[Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 4:28 PM Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
<arnaldo.melo@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Em Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 04:23:59PM +0100, Sedat Dilek escreveu:
> > On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 3:41 PM Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 3:37 PM Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > when building with pahole v1.20 and binutils v2.35.2 plus Clang
> > > > v12.0.0-rc1 and DWARF-v5 I see:
> > > > ...
> > > > + info BTF .btf.vmlinux.bin.o
> > > > + [  != silent_ ]
> > > > + printf   %-7s %s\n BTF .btf.vmlinux.bin.o
> > > >  BTF     .btf.vmlinux.bin.o
> > > > + LLVM_OBJCOPY=/opt/binutils/bin/objcopy /opt/pahole/bin/pahole -J
> > > > .tmp_vmlinux.btf
> > > > [115] INT DW_ATE_unsigned_1 Error emitting BTF type
> > > > Encountered error while encoding BTF.
> > >
> > > Grepping the pahole sources:
> > >
> > > $ git grep DW_ATE
> > > dwarf_loader.c:         bt->is_bool = encoding == DW_ATE_boolean;
> > > dwarf_loader.c:         bt->is_signed = encoding == DW_ATE_signed;
> > >
> > > Missing DW_ATE_unsigned encoding?
> > >
> >
> > Checked the LLVM sources:
> >
> > clang/lib/CodeGen/CGDebugInfo.cpp:    Encoding =
> > llvm::dwarf::DW_ATE_unsigned_char;
> > clang/lib/CodeGen/CGDebugInfo.cpp:    Encoding = llvm::dwarf::DW_ATE_unsigned;
> > clang/lib/CodeGen/CGDebugInfo.cpp:    Encoding =
> > llvm::dwarf::DW_ATE_unsigned_fixed;
> > clang/lib/CodeGen/CGDebugInfo.cpp:
> >   ? llvm::dwarf::DW_ATE_unsigned
> > ...
> > lld/test/wasm/debuginfo.test:CHECK-NEXT:                DW_AT_encoding
> >  (DW_ATE_unsigned)
> >
> > So, I will switch from GNU ld.bfd v2.35.2 to LLD-12.
>
> Thanks for the research, probably your conclusion is correct, can you go
> the next step and add that part and check if the end result is the
> expected one?
>

Still building...

Can you give me a hand on what has to be changed in dwarves/pahole?

I guess switching from ld.bfd to ld.lld will show the same ERROR.

- Sedat -