Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] Remove $(cc-option,-gdwarf-4) dependency from CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 1:48 PM Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 10:06 PM Nick Desaulniers
> <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The -gdwarf-4 flag is supported by GCC 4.5+, and also by Clang.
> >
> > You can see it at https://godbolt.org/z/6ed1oW
> >
> >   For gcc 4.5.3 pane,    line 37:    .value 0x4
> >   For clang 10.0.1 pane, line 117:   .short 4
> >
> > Given Documentation/process/changes.rst stating GCC 4.9 is the minimal
> > version, this cc-option is unneeded.
> >
> > Note
> > ----
> >
> > CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4 controls the DWARF version only for C files.
> >
> > As you can see in the top Makefile, -gdwarf-4 is only passed to CFLAGS.
> >
> >   ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
> >   DEBUG_CFLAGS    += -gdwarf-4
> >   endif
> >
> > This flag is used when compiling *.c files.
> >
> > On the other hand, the assembler is always given -gdwarf-2.
> >
> >   KBUILD_AFLAGS   += -Wa,-gdwarf-2
> >
> > Hence, the debug info that comes from *.S files is always DWARF v2.
> > This is simply because GAS supported only -gdwarf-2 for a long time.
> >
> > Recently, GAS gained the support for --dwarf-[3|4|5] options. [1]
> > And, also we have Clang integrated assembler. So, the debug info
> > for *.S files might be improved if we want.
> >
> > In my understanding, the current code is intentional, not a bug.
> >
> > [1] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=31bf18645d98b4d3d7357353be840e320649a67d
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Subject misses a "kbuild:" label like in all other patches.
> You have:
> "Remove $(cc-option,-gdwarf-4) dependency from CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4"

Ack, I wonder how that happened? Ah well, will fix in v6; thanks for
the feedback.

>
> - Sedat -
>
> > ---
> >  lib/Kconfig.debug | 1 -
> >  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> > index 78361f0abe3a..dd7d8d35b2a5 100644
> > --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
> > +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> > @@ -258,7 +258,6 @@ config DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT
> >
> >  config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
> >         bool "Generate dwarf4 debuginfo"
> > -       depends on $(cc-option,-gdwarf-4)
> >         help
> >           Generate dwarf4 debug info. This requires recent versions
> >           of gcc and gdb. It makes the debug information larger.
> > --
> > 2.30.0.284.gd98b1dd5eaa7-goog
> >



-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers