[LLVMdev] [patch] DwarfDebug problem with line section

[Jonas Maebe]

On 30 Jun 2010, at 18:40, Devang Patel wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 1:57 AM, Artur Pietrek <pietreka at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> The problem is that you put difference between two labels
>> .Lset7 = .Lsection_line_begin-.Lsection_line ## DW_AT_stmt_list
>> and that will be evaluated by assembler to a constant. It has to be  
>> a label,
>> not a constant, because it is the linker who knows the correct  
>> offset.
>
> How will linker translate a label into correct offset ?

Sorry for reviving an old thread (I'm going through my 10000 message  
backlog from llvmdev), but it seems this hasn't been changed yet in  
the the mean time.

On ELF platforms (at least Linux and FreeBSD) and on Windows, both of  
the following are labels (i.e., absolute addresses to be relocated by  
the linker) as opposed to offsets relative to the relevant section's  
start, even though the DWARF standard says they are offsets:
* address of the abbreviation table
* DW_AT_stmt_list

At least that's what I learned when I looked at what GCC and GNU AS  
generated, and changing them into offsets (I tried that in our  
compiler) results in GDB not understanding the debug information.


Jonas