Re: [RFC PATCH kernel] gcc-goto.sh: Allow to pass with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT=y

From: Alexey Kardashevskiy
Date: Tue Mar 14 2017 - 22:27:29 EST


On 14/03/17 13:54, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> On 03/03/17 11:51, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>> With just CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y, the makefile adds "-g" to
>> KBUILD_CFLAGS/KBUILD_AFLAGS and the test passes.
>>
>> However, if CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT is also enabled, the makefile
>> adds "-gsplit-dwarf" instead which makes the test fail with $?==1
>> because of objcopy trying to split the debug info:
>>
>> objcopy: Warning: '/dev/null' is not an ordinary file
>>
>> This changes the output to $(mktemp) which fixes the problem.
>>
>> I am pretty sure there better ways, this is just to demonstrate the bug.
>>
>> gcc 5.4.1, ppc64le (does not really matter).
>>
>> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> Ping?

I am adding more folks as Jason's mail server rejects mails with "Recipient
address rejected: Access denied ".


>
>
>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> scripts/gcc-goto.sh | 5 ++++-
>> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/scripts/gcc-goto.sh b/scripts/gcc-goto.sh
>> index c9469d34ecc6..ab21216ab68d 100755
>> --- a/scripts/gcc-goto.sh
>> +++ b/scripts/gcc-goto.sh
>> @@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
>> # Test for gcc 'asm goto' support
>> # Copyright (C) 2010, Jason Baron <jbaron@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> -cat << "END" | $@ -x c - -c -o /dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo "y"
>> +TMPOUT=$(mktemp)
>> +cat << "END" | $@ -x c - -c -o $TMPOUT >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo "y"
>> int main(void)
>> {
>> #if defined(__arm__) || defined(__aarch64__)
>> @@ -19,3 +20,5 @@ entry:
>> return 0;
>> }
>> END
>> +
>> +rm $TMPOUT 2>/dev/null 2>&1
>>
>
>


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Alexey