From eebba4799ca122c23c95cd38bc81495fc7613ffa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Siu Chi Chan <siuchi.chan@amd.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 06:17:41 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] improve code object loading error message (#1889)

---
 hipamd/src/program_state.inl | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/hipamd/src/program_state.inl b/hipamd/src/program_state.inl
index bcac4d384b..27fa9f2b0e 100644
--- a/hipamd/src/program_state.inl
+++ b/hipamd/src/program_state.inl
@@ -426,7 +426,11 @@ public:
 
         auto check_hsa_error = [](hsa_status_t s) {
             if (s != HSA_STATUS_SUCCESS) {
-                hip_throw(std::runtime_error{"error when loading code object"});
+                const char* hsa_err_msg;
+                hsa_status_string(s, &hsa_err_msg);
+                hip_throw(std::runtime_error{
+                              std::string("error when loading code object: ") +
+                              hsa_err_msg});
             }
         };