[RFC] Objtool toolchain proposal: -fannotate-{jump-table,noreturn}
Peter Zijlstra
peterz at infradead.org
Mon Sep 12 01:26:18 AEST 2022
On Fri, Sep 09, 2022 at 11:07:04AM -0700, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> Alternatives
> ------------
>
> Another idea which has been floated in the past is for objtool to read
> DWARF (or .eh_frame) to help it figure out the control flow. That
> hasn't been tried yet, but would be considerably more difficult and
> fragile IMO.
I though Ard played around with that a bit on ARM64. And yes, given that
most toolchains consider DWARF itself best-effort, I'm not holding my
breath there.
On top of that, building a kernel with DWARFs on is just so much
slower..
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