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2025-01-11gendwarfksyms: Add support for symbol type pointersSami Tolvanen
The compiler may choose not to emit type information in DWARF for external symbols. Clang, for example, does this for symbols not defined in the current TU. To provide a way to work around this issue, add support for __gendwarfksyms_ptr_<symbol> pointers that force the compiler to emit the necessary type information in DWARF also for the missing symbols. Example usage: #define GENDWARFKSYMS_PTR(sym) \ static typeof(sym) *__gendwarfksyms_ptr_##sym __used \ __section(".discard.gendwarfksyms") = &sym; extern int external_symbol(void); GENDWARFKSYMS_PTR(external_symbol); Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>