dwarflint
Tom Tromey
tromey at redhat.com
Fri Sep 10 22:28:02 UTC 2010
Roland> https://fedorahosted.org/elfutils/wiki/DwarfLint
Roland> Please follow up on elfutils-devel at lists.fedorahosted.org about
Roland> details.
Roland> If you have any more suggestions for checks, please post them to
Roland> elfutils-devel and we'll get them onto the TODO list.
Roland> Especially, if you have come across bad data emitted by GCC that is not
Roland> listed on SuspiciousDebuginfoCases, then let us know--and no less so if
Roland> GCC has already been fixed.
Here, I recommend simply searching for "GCC" in src/gdb/dwarf2read.c.
This will yield a number of PRs (some open, some closed) and other
oddities.
Searching through the "debug" bugs in GCC bugzilla would also yield some
stuff.
Some other things:
check_debug_aranges
We saw cases in the wild where an arange entry was terminated early.
That is, the 0,0 entry occurred before the end of the particular
arange buffer. There is a bug, maybe closed, in Red Hat bugzilla for
this.
Consider checking that every CU has an arange entry.
This is not strictly required, but it is nicer for consumers.
ISTR filing a bug about this in GCC bugzilla.
check_debug_pubnames / pubtypes
FWIW, GCC doesn't emit these any more. So, IMO anyway, they are not
very important to check. They were never all that usable in the first
place.
But, if you want to check these, then check that they are complete and
correct.
In the past we noticed that names were not always fully qualified (I
forget if it was namespace- or class- qualification that GCC didn't do
properly). I'm sure I filed a GCC bug for this.
Tom
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