Re: [Dwarf-Discuss] Alternate entry points

[Paul Robinson via Dwarf-Discuss]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jakub Jelinek [mailto:ja...@redhat.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 6:16 AM
> To: Rafik Zurob
> Cc: Robinson, Paul; dwarf-discuss@lists.dwarfstd.org
> Subject: Re: [Dwarf-Discuss] Alternate entry points
> 
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 01:00:26AM -0400, Rafik Zurob via Dwarf-Discuss
> wrote:
> > > I dug up gfortran 5.4, which does not emit DW_TAG_entry_point with my
> > > simple example program.  Does anybody actually use it?
> >
> > IBM XL Fortran generates it.
> >
> > $ cat entry.f
> > subroutine foo(a)
> >   integer a
> >   real b
> >
> >   a = 5
> >   return
> > entry bar(b)
> >   b = 3.0
> >   return
> > end subroutine
> > $
> >
> > Gets the following DWARF:
> 
> That is kind of weird, because foo only has dummy argument a
> and entry bar only has b, there is nothing that tells the debug info
> consumer that the subprogram doesn't have (a, b) arguments.
> 
> >  <1><42>: Abbrev Number: 2 (DW_TAG_base_type)
> >     <43>   DW_AT_name        : INTEGER
> >     <4b>   DW_AT_byte_size   : 4
> >     <4c>   DW_AT_encoding    : 5        (signed)
> >  <1><51>: Abbrev Number: 2 (DW_TAG_base_type)
> >     <52>   DW_AT_name        : REAL
> >     <57>   DW_AT_byte_size   : 4
> >     <58>   DW_AT_encoding    : 4        (float)
> >  <1><59>: Abbrev Number: 4 (DW_TAG_subprogram)
> >     <5a>   DW_AT_name        : foo
> >     <5e>   DW_AT_low_pc      : 0x0
> >     <66>   DW_AT_high_pc     : 128
> >     <67>   DW_AT_decl_file   : 1
> >     <68>   DW_AT_decl_line   : 1
> >     <69>   DW_AT_external    : 1
> >     <6a>   DW_AT_frame_base  : 0x0 (location list)
> >  <2><72>: Abbrev Number: 5 (DW_TAG_formal_parameter)
> >     <73>   DW_AT_location    : 3 byte block: 91 20 6    (DW_OP_fbreg:
> 32;
> > DW_OP_deref)
> >     <77>   DW_AT_name        : a
> >     <79>   DW_AT_type        : 0x42
> >  <2><81>: Abbrev Number: 5 (DW_TAG_formal_parameter)
> >     <82>   DW_AT_location    : 3 byte block: 91 28 6    (DW_OP_fbreg:
> 40;
> > DW_OP_deref)
> >     <86>   DW_AT_name        : b
> >     <88>   DW_AT_type        : 0x51
> >  <2><90>: Abbrev Number: 6 (DW_TAG_entry_point)
> >     <91>   DW_AT_name        : bar
> >     <95>   DW_AT_low_pc      : 0x28
> >     <9d>   DW_AT_decl_file   : 1
> >     <9e>   DW_AT_decl_line   : 7
> >     <9f>   DW_AT_frame_base  : 1 byte block: 6e         (DW_OP_reg30
> > (r30))

If the entry for 'bar' has a formal_parameter child describing 'b'
then this is behaving according to my intuition.
Thanks,
--paulr

> 
>       Jakub
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