[Dwarf-Discuss] Decoding DW_FORM_block1

[Arun KS]

Hi Mark,

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Mark Wielaard <mjw at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-07-27 at 19:32 +0530, Arun KS wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Mark Wielaard <mjw at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2012-07-27 at 15:14 +0530, Arun KS wrote:
>>  [    31]      member
>>                name                 "vinayak_i"
>>                decl_file            2
>>                decl_line            2
>>                type                 [    4e]
>>                data_member_location                 [   0] plus_uconst 0
>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>> <Arun>Things were fine till this point,
>>
>>  [    3f]      member
>>                name                 "vinayak_u"
>>                decl_file            2
>>                decl_line            3
>>                type                 [    55]
>>                data_member_location                 [   0] plus_uconst 4
>
> Note that eu-readelf --debug-dump=info doesn't show you the abbrev
> numbers. Most likely is that both members use the same abbrev number.
>
>> .debug_abbrev follows:
>>
>>  [    2] offset: 19, children: yes, tag: structure_type
>>           attr: name, form: strp, offset: 0x13
>>           attr: byte_size, form: data1, offset: 0x15
>>           attr: decl_file, form: data1, offset: 0x17
>>           attr: decl_line, form: data1, offset: 0x19
>>           attr: sibling, form: ref4, offset: 0x1b
>>  [    3] offset: 34, children: no, tag: member
>>           attr: name, form: strp, offset: 0x22
>>           attr: decl_file, form: data1, offset: 0x24
>>           attr: decl_line, form: data1, offset: 0x26
>>           attr: type, form: ref4, offset: 0x28
>>           attr: data_member_location, form: block1, offset: 0x2a
>>
>> >>>>>>Why no entry in .debug_abbrev for second member named "vinayak_u"?
>> .debug_abbrev is directly going to base_type
>
> The DIE tree in the .debug_info points to the abbrevs that describe
> them. Most likely both point to [3] here. See "7.5.2 Debugging
> Information Entry" in the DWARF4 spec.

Thanks for pointing this out. I was blocked here.
Thank you very much.

Arun

>
> You might want to use a library like libdw from elfutils or libdwarf to
> parse DWARF if a tool like eu-readelf doesn't give you the information
> you need.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark