RFR: 8284437: Building from different users/workspace is not always deterministic [v2]

[Maxim Kartashev]

On Fri, 8 Apr 2022 14:42:34 GMT, Andrew Leonard <aleonard at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Andrew Leonard has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   Trigger checks
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> I am not sure why without the explicit .file directive that the FILE symbol in the ELF info contains an entry pointing to the .o object file, here's what it was before:
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>  31712: 0000000000000000     0 FILE    LOCAL  DEFAULT  ABS /home/andrew2/jdk/build/linux-aarch64-server-release/hotspot/variant-server/libjvm/objs/atomic_linux_aarch64.o
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> It's as if the lack of the .file has caused some tooling (linker?) to create this entry using the .o file path.

@andrew-m-leonard 
> So I am thinking adding a .file directive to the .S file specifying the "full source path" should do the trick thanks to -debug-prefix-map, I will do a test..

But then you'll end up with that absolute path name embedded into `STT_FILE` in the object file. It's best to use the relative path name *and* employ path mapping.

@andrew-m-leonard 
> It's as if the lack of the .file has caused some tooling (linker?) to create this entry using the .o file path.

I'm sure that's exactly what happens; the linker is the culprit.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8124