[Bug gas/29517] DWARF subprograms output by gas-2.39 have a 'void' return type

[jbeulich at suse dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29517

--- Comment #1 from Jan Beulich <jbeulich at suse dot com> ---
(In reply to Kevin Buettner from comment #0)
> Note that there's no DW_AT_type attribute (which would specify the return
> type) for the munmap subprogram. As I understand it, this causes the return
> type to be void.  In section 3.3.2 of the DWARF 5 doc, it says "Debugging
> information entries for C void functions should not have an attribute for
> the return type."
> 
> However, a potential fix is suggested by section 5.2: "An unspecified
> (implicit, unknown, ambiguous or nonexistent) type is represented by a
> debugging information entry with the tag DW_TAG_unspecified_type."

Well, that's the route to take then for Dwarf3 and newer, I guess. I don't
currently see what we could do about it for Dwarf2, though.

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