Commit 3eb465a3 authored by Yonghong Song's avatar Yonghong Song
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[DebugInfo] Fix assertion for extern void type

Commit d77ae155 ("[DebugInfo] Support to emit debugInfo
for extern variables") added support to emit debuginfo
for extern variables. Currently, only BPF target enables to
emit debuginfo for extern variables.

But if the extern variable has "void" type, the compilation will
fail.

  -bash-4.4$ cat t.c
  extern void bla;
  void *test() {
    void *x = &bla;
    return x;
  }
  -bash-4.4$ clang -target bpf -g -O2 -S t.c
  missing global variable type
  !1 = distinct !DIGlobalVariable(name: "bla", scope: !2, file: !3, line: 1,
                                  isLocal: false, isDefinition: false)
  ...
  fatal error: error in backend: Broken module found, compilation aborted!
  PLEASE submit a bug report to https://bugs.llvm.org/ and include the crash backtrace,
      preprocessed source, and associated run script.
  Stack dump:
  ...

The IR requires a DIGlobalVariable must have a valid type and the
"void" type does not generate any type, hence the above fat...
parent 39b3c41b
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