Re: [PATCH v4 16/19] gendwarfksyms: Add support for symbol type pointers

[Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>]

On 10/8/24 20:38, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> 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>
> Acked-by: Neal Gompa <neal@gompa.dev>

Looks ok to me, feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>

-- Petr