Re: [PATCH 7/7] DWARF: add the config option

[Jiri Kosina]

On Sat, 20 May 2017, H.J. Lu wrote:

> >>>> pushq %whatever
> >>>> .cfi_adjust_sp -8
> >>>> ...
> >>>> popq %whatever
> >>>> .cfi_adjust_sp 8
> >>>>
> >>
> >> Np.  Compiler needs to generate this.
> >>
> >
> > How would the compiler generate this when inline asm is involved?  For
> > the kernel, objtool could get around the need to have these
> > annotations, but not so much for user code?  Is the compiler supposed
> > to parse the inline asm?  Would the compiler provide some magic % code
> > to represent the current CFA base register?
> 
> Here is one example of inline asm with call frame info:
> 
> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/sigaction.c;h=be058bac436d1cc9794b2b03107676ed99f6b872;hb=HEAD

That brings us basically pretty close to square one though; having to 
maintain "manual" anotations. Something we're pretty much trying to avoid 
through this excercise.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs