https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=111409
Bug ID: 111409
Summary: Invalid .debug_macro.dwo macro information for split
DWARF
Product: gcc
Version: 13.2.1
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: P3
Component: debug
Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org
Reporter: osandov at osandov dot com
Target Milestone: ---
When using -g3 -gsplit-dwarf, the generated macro information has a couple of
issues.
I'm using the following trivial source file:
$ cat test.c
#define ZERO 0
int main(void)
{
return ZERO;
}
First, GCC emits DW_MACRO_import entries, but they always have an offset of 0:
$ gcc -g3 -gsplit-dwarf test.c
$ readelf --debug-dump=macro a-test.dwo | head -n 14
Contents of the .debug_macro.dwo section:
Offset: 0x0
Version: 5
Offset size: 4
Offset into .debug_line: 0x0
DW_MACRO_import - offset : 0x0
DW_MACRO_start_file - lineno: 0 filenum: 1
DW_MACRO_start_file - lineno: 0 filenum: 2
DW_MACRO_import - offset : 0x0
DW_MACRO_end_file
DW_MACRO_define_strx lineno : 1 macro : <no .debug_str_offsets section>
DW_MACRO_end_file
Second, each macro unit is in its own .debug_macro.dwo section:
$ readelf -S -W a-test.dwo | grep -F .debug_macro
[ 3] .debug_macro.dwo PROGBITS 0000000000000000 0000b2 00001e 00 E
0 0 1
[ 4] .debug_macro.dwo PROGBITS 0000000000000000 0000d0 00059e 00
0 0 1
[ 5] .debug_macro.dwo PROGBITS 0000000000000000 00066e 00001b 00
0 0 1
As far as I can tell, the DWARF specification doesn't allow this, and tools
seem to only use either the first or last section (gdb only finds the first
one, and dwp only copies the last one into the .dwp file).
These seem to have the same underlying cause: when not using split DWARF, the
linker deduplicates units and relocates the import offsets appropriately, but
this is not possible with split DWARF. I imagine that the fix would be to not
use imports for split DWARF and only generate one macro unit per .dwo file
containing everything.
(P.S., -g3 -gdwarf-4 -gstrict-dwarf -gsplit-dwarf generates a valid
.debug_macinfo.dwo because it doesn't have a notion of imports.)
