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Incomplete/wrong debug information in AXF file produced by Arm Compiler 6.18?

Ezra over 3 years ago

When running llvm-dwarfdump --verify Application.axf I get many "DIE address ranges are not contained in its parent's ranges" and "DIEs have overlapping address ranges" errors.

The first one seems to be due to incomplete entries in the .debug_ranges section, e.g.:

error: DIE address ranges are not contained in its parent's ranges:
0x000ef369: DW_TAG_compile_unit
              DW_AT_producer    ("Component: Arm Compiler for Embedded 6.18 Tool: armclang [5e4cc700]")
              DW_AT_language    (DW_LANG_C_plus_plus_14)
              DW_AT_name        ("foo.cpp")
              DW_AT_stmt_list   (0x00019750)
              DW_AT_comp_dir    ("/src")
              DW_AT_low_pc      (0x0000000000000000)
              DW_AT_ranges      (0x00006388
                 [0x00108764, 0x00108770)
                 [0x001062fc, 0x001063c2))

0x000f2545:   DW_TAG_subprogram
                DW_AT_low_pc    (0x0000000000107e28)
                DW_AT_high_pc   (0x0000000000107e52)
                DW_AT_frame_base        (DW_OP_reg13)
                DW_AT_GNU_all_call_sites        (true)
                DW_AT_linkage_name      ("_GLOBAL__sub_I_foo.cpp")
                DW_AT_artificial        (true)

Also, there are many entries in .debug_ranges that only contain <End of list>.

The second error is due to many functions reported to be located at address 0:

error: DIEs have overlapping address ranges:
0x000f271e: DW_TAG_subprogram
              DW_AT_low_pc      (0x0000000000000000)
              DW_AT_high_pc     (0x0000000000000010)
              DW_AT_frame_base  (DW_OP_reg13)
              DW_AT_GNU_all_call_sites  (true)
              DW_AT_linkage_name        ("_ZN4Edma15BarEj")
              DW_AT_name        ("Bar")
              DW_AT_decl_file   ("/src/bar.cpp")
              DW_AT_decl_line   (114)
              DW_AT_type        (0x000f7203 "bool")
              DW_AT_external    (true)

0x000f2676: DW_TAG_subprogram
              DW_AT_low_pc      (0x0000000000000000)
              DW_AT_high_pc     (0x0000000000000022)
              DW_AT_frame_base  (DW_OP_reg13)
              DW_AT_GNU_all_call_sites  (true)
              DW_AT_abstract_origin     (0x000f2698 "_ZN4SomethingEi")

I believe this is the reason that various implementations of the addr2line utility, GDB and LLDB cannot resolve the source code line numbers for certain addresses.

Might this be a bug in Arm Compiler 6 or am I missing something?

Any help is highly appreciated.

Cheers,

Ezra