From: "Carlos Maniero" <carlos@maniero.me>
To: <~johnnyrichard/olang-devel@lists.sr.ht>
Subject: [POC] Generating DWARF debugging information
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 12:05:48 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CZ95CX0MYNVD.2NXADO1FWXK6J@maniero.me> (raw)
Hi everyone.
Since it is not that simple to find information about about how to
generate debugging information in a way that the program can be
debuggable on gdb, I'll dump what I found here.
First of all I took the minimal example we have currently in our code
base and manually converted it to assembly.
Minimal example:
fn main(): u32 {
return 0
}
Correspondent assembly:
.text
.globl _start
_start:
call main
mov %eax, %edi
mov $60, %eax
syscall
main:
nop ; (this nop is mocking a function prelude)
mov $32, %eax
ret
After a few reverse engineer with GCC and C I could be able to make it
work with the assembly bellow:
.text
.globl _start
_start:
call main
mov %eax, %edi
mov $60, %eax
syscall
.file 1 "main_exit.0"
main:
.loc 1 1 1
nop
.loc 1 2 1
mov $32, %eax
ret
compiling:
as main_exit.s -gdwarf-2; ld a.out -o a
And that is it.
It was really hard to found any documentation of the gnu assembler (gas)
directives. So I'm going to document it here:
https://software-dl.ti.com/codegen/docs/tiarmclang/rel3_2_0_LTS/gnu_syntax_arm_asm_language/gnu_arm_directives/debugging_directives.html#gar-debug-directives
That's it!
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