[PATCH][2/2] early LTO debug, main part

Pierre-Marie de Rodat derodat@adacore.com
Thu Sep 21 14:29:00 GMT 2017


On 09/20/2017 08:08 PM, Jeff Law wrote:
>> As for general DWARF5 testing, I think best coverage is GDB (say guality
>> testing with -gdwarf-5), I think GDB 8.0 should have the needed support.
>> I'll try to install it (am only at 7.12.1 right now) and try to do some
>> testing.
> > What about Pierre-Marie's work to be able to use python to parse and
> check dwarf output?

I’m not sure from reading the thread what is to be tested, here. Is it 
just the presence of the .debug_line_str section? (in which case for 
once just scanning the .s sounds enough) Or is it rather about checking 
that objdump (or alike) can properly parse the line table?

-- 
Pierre-Marie de Rodat



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