ro added a comment.
In D130566#3681129 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D130566#3681129>, @dblaikie wrote:
>> During a build on Debian 11/sparc64, several binaries fail to link with
>>
>> /usr/bin/ld: /usr/bin/ld: DWARF error: invalid or unhandled FORM value:
>> 0x23
>
> What's the linker doing parsing DWARF? Any idea what feature this is? And why
> is it SPARC-specific? Or is it true of other targets on the same Debian
> version?
I have no idea, actually. The code in question is `bfd/dwarf2.c`
(`read_attribute_value`), who's comment states:
/* Read and fill in the value of attribute ATTR as described by FORM.
Read data starting from INFO_PTR, but never at or beyond INFO_PTR_END.
Returns an updated INFO_PTR taking into account the amount of data read.
*/
So far, I had only seen it with the GNU `ld` 2.38.50 bundled with Debian
11/sparc64, but couldn't reproduce on Ubuntu 20.04/x86_64 (neither bundled GNU
`ld` 2.34, nor self-compiled 2.38.90). Things got even weirder when I tried
to create a minimal testcase for a binutils bug report: I'd initially seen the
error when linking `Sanitizer-sparc-Test`. However, at that time the link also
failed due to D130571 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D130571>. I got the `unhandled
FORM value` error several times, probably for several different input objects.
However, when adding `-latomic` to the link, the link did succeed without
issues.
I've since ran a full build with all pending patches, just without this one,
and didn't see the DWARF error again. This is all extremely weird, but until
the error shows up again, I'll put this patch on hold (not yet abandoning since
there seems to be no way to unabandon if necessary).
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