While debugging a ppc64le QEMU guest on an x86_64 host, I observed GDB crashes when attempting to attach to the remote target:
(gdb) target remote :1234 Investigation revealed that cross-compiling the Linux kernel for ppc64le on an x86_64 host using Clang produces a vmlinux binary containing an empty .interp section. This empty .interp section is responsible for the GDB crashes. This issue does not occur when: - Building for ppc64le target using GCC on x86_64 host - Building for ppc64le target using Clang on ppc64le host - Building for ppc64le target using GCC on ppc64le host For details refer [1] [1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33481 vishalc
