Matteo Croce reported a bpf backend fatal error in
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/52779
A simplified case looks like:
$ cat bug.c extern int do_smth(int); int test() { return __builtin_btf_type_id(*(typeof(do_smth) *)do_smth, 1); } $ clang -target bpf -O2 -g -c bug.c fatal error: error in backend: Empty type name for BTF_TYPE_ID_REMOTE reloc ...
The reason for the fatal error is that the relocation is against
a DISubroutineType like type 13 below:
!10 = !DIBasicType(name: "int", size: 32, encoding: DW_ATE_signed) !11 = !{} !12 = !DILocation(line: 3, column: 10, scope: !7) !13 = !DISubroutineType(types: !14) !14 = !{!10, !10}
The DISubroutineType doesn't have a name and there is no way for
downstream bpfloader/kernel to do proper relocation for it.
But we can improve error message to be more specific for this case.
The patch improved the error message to be:
fatal error: error in backend: SubroutineType not supported for BTF_TYPE_ID_REMOTE reloc