From: Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] [gdb/contrib] Some dwarf-to-dwarf-assember.py fixes
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2026 13:19:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260309121930.3098744-1-tdevries@suse.de> (raw)
I ran into trouble using dwarf-to-dwarf-assember.py on a hello world
executable, due to DW_LANG_MIPS_assembler.
The first patch fixes this.
I then tested the script on the executables generated by the testsuite, and ran into
DW_FORM_data16 being unsupported.
The second patch fixes that.
The third patch removes the only raise from the script, preferring imperfect
to partial output.
I tested the changes using the following command:
...
$ for f in $(find outputs/ -type f -executable| sort); do \
./src/gdb/contrib/dwarf-to-dwarf-assembler.py $f > /dev/null; \
st=$?; \
if [ $st -ne 0 ]; then echo "FILE: $f: $st"; fi; \
done \
2>&1 | tee LOG
Error parsing ELF file. Does it contain DWARF information?
'int' object has no attribute 'decode'
FILE: outputs/gdb.base/dwz-symtabs/libfoo-2.so: 61
Error parsing ELF file. Does it contain DWARF information?
'int' object has no attribute 'decode'
FILE: outputs/gdb.base/dwz-symtabs/libfoo.so: 61
Error parsing ELF file. Does it contain DWARF information?
Magic number does not match
FILE: outputs/gdb.base/gnu-debugdata/gnu-debugdata.mini_debuginfo-debuglink.xz: 61
Error parsing ELF file. Does it contain DWARF information?
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 6: ordinal not in range(128)
FILE: outputs/gdb.base/utf8-identifiers/utf8-identifiers: 61
Error parsing ELF file. Does it contain DWARF information?
'int' object has no attribute 'decode'
FILE: outputs/gdb.debuginfod/solib-with-dwz/debug/libfoo-2.so.debug: 61
Error parsing ELF file. Does it contain DWARF information?
'int' object has no attribute 'decode'
FILE: outputs/gdb.debuginfod/solib-with-dwz/debug/libfoo.so.debug: 61
Error parsing ELF file. Does it contain DWARF information?
refaddr 12346399 not in DIE range of CU 721
FILE: outputs/gdb.dwarf2/corrupt/corrupt: 61
Error parsing ELF file. Does it contain DWARF information?
unexpected end of stream while parsing a ULEB128 encoded value
FILE: outputs/gdb.dwarf2/debug-names-missing-cu/debug-names-missing-cu: 61
Error parsing ELF file. Does it contain DWARF information?
no decoding mapping for 103 [unit_type]
FILE: outputs/gdb.dwarf2/dw2-error/dw2-error: 61
Error parsing ELF file. Does it contain DWARF information?
refaddr 756 not in DIE range of CU 756
FILE: outputs/gdb.dwarf2/dw2-inter-cu-error-2/dw2-inter-cu-error-2: 61
Error parsing ELF file. Does it contain DWARF information?
769
FILE: outputs/gdb.dwarf2/dw2-inter-cu-error/dw2-inter-cu-error: 61
Error parsing ELF file. Does it contain DWARF information?
1271
FILE: outputs/gdb.dwarf2/dw2-op-out-param/dw2-op-out-param: 61
Error parsing ELF file. Does it contain DWARF information?
'NoneType' object has no attribute 'stream'
FILE: outputs/gdb.dwarf2/dw2-using-debug-str/dw2-using-debug-str-no-debug-str: 61
Error parsing ELF file. Does it contain DWARF information?
'DW_FORM_strx'
FILE: outputs/gdb.dwarf2/dw-form-strx/dw-form-strx: 61
Error parsing ELF file. Does it contain DWARF information?
'DW_FORM_strx'
FILE: outputs/gdb.dwarf2/dw-form-strx-out-of-bounds/dw-form-strx-out-of-bounds: 61
Error parsing ELF file. Does it contain DWARF information?
2
FILE: outputs/gdb.dwarf2/implptrpiece/implptrpiece: 61
Error parsing ELF file. Does it contain DWARF information?
refaddr 860 not in DIE range of CU 721
FILE: outputs/gdb.dwarf2/imported-unit-c/imported-unit-c: 61
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/data/vries/gdb/./src/gdb/contrib/dwarf-to-dwarf-assembler.py", line 663, in <module>
main(sys.argv)
~~~~^^^^^^^^^^
File "/data/vries/gdb/./src/gdb/contrib/dwarf-to-dwarf-assembler.py", line 659, in main
generator.generate()
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
File "/data/vries/gdb/./src/gdb/contrib/dwarf-to-dwarf-assembler.py", line 631, in generate
self.generate_die(die, indent_count)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/data/vries/gdb/./src/gdb/contrib/dwarf-to-dwarf-assembler.py", line 610, in generate_die
die_lines = die.format(self.dwarf_parser.offset_to_die, indent_count)
File "/data/vries/gdb/./src/gdb/contrib/dwarf-to-dwarf-assembler.py", line 300, in format
return "\n".join(self.format_lines(offset_die_lookup, indent_count))
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/data/vries/gdb/./src/gdb/contrib/dwarf-to-dwarf-assembler.py", line 397, in format_lines
inner_lines = super().format_lines(offset_die_lookup, indent_count + 1)
File "/data/vries/gdb/./src/gdb/contrib/dwarf-to-dwarf-assembler.py", line 288, in format_lines
child_lines = child.format_lines(
offset_die_lookup, indent_count=indent_count + 1
)
File "/data/vries/gdb/./src/gdb/contrib/dwarf-to-dwarf-assembler.py", line 288, in format_lines
child_lines = child.format_lines(
offset_die_lookup, indent_count=indent_count + 1
)
File "/data/vries/gdb/./src/gdb/contrib/dwarf-to-dwarf-assembler.py", line 288, in format_lines
child_lines = child.format_lines(
offset_die_lookup, indent_count=indent_count + 1
)
[Previous line repeated 1 more time]
File "/data/vries/gdb/./src/gdb/contrib/dwarf-to-dwarf-assembler.py", line 272, in format_lines
attr_line = attr.format(
offset_die_lookup, indent_count=indent_count + 1
)
File "/data/vries/gdb/./src/gdb/contrib/dwarf-to-dwarf-assembler.py", line 222, in format
s += self._format_value(offset_die_lookup)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/data/vries/gdb/./src/gdb/contrib/dwarf-to-dwarf-assembler.py", line 170, in _format_value
return self._format_str(self.value.decode("ascii"))
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xf0 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
FILE: outputs/gdb.rust/unicode/unicode: 1
...
I filed the UnicodeDecodeError as PR testsuite/33970 [1].
[1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33970
Tom de Vries (3):
[gdb/contrib] Handle DW_LANG_Mips_Assembler in
dwarf-to-dwarf-assembler.py
[gdb/contrib] Handle DW_FORM_data16 in dwarf-to-dwarf-assembler.py
[gdb/contrib] Avoid NotImplementedError in dwarf-to-dwarf-assembler.py
gdb/contrib/dwarf-to-dwarf-assembler.py | 13 +++++++++++--
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
base-commit: 072ea1fa0d39ea0110722385f37415ab6352315d
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2.51.0
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-09 12:19 Tom de Vries [this message]
2026-03-09 12:19 ` [PATCH 1/3] [gdb/contrib] Handle DW_LANG_Mips_Assembler in dwarf-to-dwarf-assembler.py Tom de Vries
2026-03-09 14:10 ` Tom Tromey
2026-03-09 15:25 ` Tom de Vries
2026-03-09 12:19 ` [PATCH 2/3] [gdb/contrib] Handle DW_FORM_data16 " Tom de Vries
2026-03-09 12:19 ` [PATCH 3/3] [gdb/contrib] Avoid NotImplementedError " Tom de Vries
2026-03-09 14:10 ` [PATCH 0/3] [gdb/contrib] Some dwarf-to-dwarf-assember.py fixes Tom Tromey
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