On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 04:29:34PM +0200, Pierre-Marie de Rodat wrote:
> 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?
The latter, basically verify that a line info (and also location info etc.)
consumer can grok the DWARF5 stuff. And for that IMNSHO we really need a
consumer that follows the spec and complains if it is wrong.
Jakub
