[llvm-dev] Extracting LocList address ranges from DWO .debug_info

Alexander Yermolovich via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Fri Feb 12 18:07:42 PST 2021


Hello

I am wondering if this is a bug, or more likely something I am doing wrong/using wrong APIs.
I have binary A, and object file A.o, compiled with Clang debug fission single mode. So .dwo sections are in the object file. Although with split mode it would bre the same behavior.
Relevant parts of the code:
for (const auto &CU : DwCtx->compile_units()) {
      auto *const DwarfUnit = CU.get();
      if (llvm::Optional<uint64_t> DWOId = DwarfUnit->getDWOId()) {
        auto *CUDWO = static_cast<DWARFCompileUnit*>(DwarfUnit->getNonSkeletonUnitDIE(false).getDwarfUnit());
        ...
      }
  }

Later in the code I iterate over DIEs for .debug_info.dwo and call
DIE.getLocations(dwarf::DW_AT_location);

Alternatively can manually extract offset and call
CUnit->findLoclistFromOffset(Offset);

It fails because it tries to look up address using DWARFUnit in NormalUnits that it extracts from A.o.
Under the hood vistAsoluteLocationList is called with getAddrOffsetSectionItem passed in.
Since this DWARFUnit is DWO, it invokes Context.info_section_units(). Which uses A.o to create DW_SECT_INFO and DW_SECT_EXT_TYPES.
Then calls itself, but from the newly constructed Debug DWARFUnit. The skeleton CU that is in A.o.

Since the way it's constructed the AddrOffsetSectionBase is never set, so getAddrOffsetSectionItem returns None. Eventually error is returned from high level API call.

I ended up doing this to get address ranges:
          DWARFLocationExpressionsVector LocEVector;
          auto CallBack = [&](const DWARFLocationEntry &Entry) -> bool {
            auto StartAddress =
                BaseUnit->getAddrOffsetSectionItem(Entry.Value0);
            if (!StartAddress) {
              //TODO: Handle Error
              return false;
            }
            LocEVector.emplace_back(DWARFLocationExpression{DWARFAddressRange{
                (*StartAddress).Address, (*StartAddress).Address + Entry.Value1,
                Entry.SectionIndex}, Entry.Loc});
            return true;
          };

          if(Unit->getLocationTable().visitLocationList(&Offset, CallBack))
            ...


But back to original API calls. Are they just not designed to work with DWO CUs, or am I missing something?

Even if AddrOffsetSectionBase was set to 0, the address section it is accessing is in A.o and is not relocated. One would still need to get base address from the address from Skeleton CU to get fully resolved address ranges, or what I did to use index to access binary .debug_addr section directly (with appropriate AddrOffsetSectionBase).

Thank You
Alex
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