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From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
To: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>,
	"ramana.radhakrishnan@arm.com" <ramana.radhakrishnan@arm.com>,
	Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>,
	Marcus Shawcroft <marcus.shawcroft@arm.com>,
	Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>,
	Peter Bergner <bergner@vnet.ibm.com>,
	Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>,
	Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
	Andrew Waterman <andrew@sifive.com>,
	Jim Wilson <jim.wilson.gcc@gmail.com>,
	Nelson Chu <nelson@rivosinc.com>, "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>,
	Luis Machado <luis.machado@arm.com>,
	Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] gas: re-work line number tracking for macros and their expansions
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 09:28:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45290c42-f30a-ca1b-efb5-6283caaa172b@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a63p2a81.fsf@redhat.com>

On 14.12.2022 17:58, Andrew Burgess wrote:
> I think I understand the issue a little more now.  I have a simple
> reproducer which can be run outside the gdb testsuite (see below).
> 
> It appears that the DWARF for macros now tries to associate the
> instructions within the macro the source location within the macro
> definition, rather than the macro use site.  I'm not entirely convinced
> this is a good idea (as a macro could be used multiple times), or even
> if this was an intended change of this series.

No, there was no intention to alter generated Dwarf. In fact I had put in
place a test ahead of this change here (commit 6fdb723799e2) to have at
least some proof of that. Quite likely that wasn't elaborate enough a test
then.

> If this is the direction gas is moving in then I guess we will need to
> update the GDB test, but there is, I think, a bug in the generated
> DWARF, in that it appears that the wrong file name is being used.

While I would like to improve representation of .macro expansions, we
first need to determine what the best way is for representing them. See
also the post-commit-message remark in the submission of the patch here.

Jan

  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-15  8:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-09 10:47 [PATCH v2 0/2] gas: diagnostic improvements for macros Jan Beulich
2022-12-09 10:49 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] Arm: avoid unhelpful uses of .macro in testsuite Jan Beulich
2022-12-09 10:52 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] gas: re-work line number tracking for macros and their expansions Jan Beulich
2022-12-14 14:03   ` Luis Machado
2022-12-14 14:13     ` Luis Machado
2022-12-14 16:00     ` Andrew Burgess
2022-12-14 16:58       ` Andrew Burgess
2022-12-15  8:28         ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2022-12-15 10:50         ` Jan Beulich
2022-12-15 17:00           ` Andrew Burgess

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