cmd/link: GNU objdump for ppc64le binary errors: unable to get decompressed section .zdebug_abbrev

[laboger]

What version of Go are you using (go version)?

tip

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

yes

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

ppc64le

What did you do?

Used the GNU objdump on golang built binaries.

What did you expect to see?

The objdump output with no errors/warnings. I've used this for a long time without seeing these messages.

What did you see instead?

objdump: hello: unable to get decompressed section .zdebug_abbrev
objdump: hello: unable to get decompressed section .zdebug_line
objdump: hello: unable to get decompressed section .zdebug_frame
objdump: hello: unable to get decompressed section .zdebug_pubnames
objdump: hello: unable to get decompressed section .zdebug_pubtypes
objdump: hello: unable to get decompressed section .zdebug_info
objdump: hello: unable to get decompressed section .zdebug_loc
objdump: hello: unable to get decompressed section .zdebug_ranges

This happens on a simple hello program.
Seems to still generate the objdump OK.

[heschik]

What version of objdump? 2.30 is perfectly content on my workstation when I do objdump --dwarf.

[laboger]

This happens on an Ubuntu 16.04 with 2.26.1.
I can try some newer distros to see what happens.

[laboger]

I see this on the 16.04 Ubuntu with 2.26.1

objdump -D hello > /dev/null
objdump: hello: unable to get decompressed section .zdebug_abbrev
objdump: hello: unable to get decompressed section .zdebug_line
objdump: hello: unable to get decompressed section .zdebug_frame
objdump: hello: unable to get decompressed section .zdebug_pubnames
objdump: hello: unable to get decompressed section .zdebug_pubtypes
objdump: hello: unable to get decompressed section .zdebug_info
objdump: hello: unable to get decompressed section .zdebug_loc
objdump: hello: unable to get decompressed section .zdebug_ranges

No messages with objdump --dwarf hello on that system.
I don't see any messages with objdump with either option on Ubuntu 18.04 with binutils 2.30.

[heschik]

I doubt there's anything I can do, then. I could go find what changed, but odds are it was a bug in objdump and it's fixed, not anything we can work around short of rolling back DWARF compression.

[laboger]

I mainly opened this for your awareness, and suppose it's OK that it works in a later objdump, which I didn't think to check.

[heschik]

Cool. Thanks for the heads up.