Re: [PATCH] lib/Kconfig.debug: Add check for non-constant .{s,u}leb128 support to DWARF5

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On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 2:36 PM Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 02:13:47PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > Reraising my concern from
> > https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1719#issuecomment-1258678969
>
> Sorry, I thought I addressed your concern with my comment right below it
> but I probably should have worded it better.

No, I just missed your point about other architectures.

> > We've put a fair amount of work into getting CC=clang LLVM_IAS=0 to
> > work for DWARF v5 (both on the GNU binutils side, and Kbuild), I'd
> > hate to see that effectively knee-capped because of an issue in GNU
> > binutils that is only relevant for one architecture.
>
> Sure, that is a completely reasonable concern. However...
>
> > I'd concede support for ARCH=riscv, but not for all other
> > architectures, which this effectively does.
>
> No, it does not, CONFIG_AS_HAS_NON_CONST_LEB128 can still be enabled
> when GNU as supports this construct for a particular architecture; as
> far as I can tell, RISC-V is the only one that doesn't. See the tests
> with ARCH=arm64 and ARCH=x86_64 compared with ARCH=riscv below.

Ah, sorry for the noise then. Thanks for the patch.
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>

-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers



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