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Re: [PATCH] inconsistent DWARF2 sections generated by --gdwarf2

On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 09:22:37AM +0000, Nick Clifton wrote:
> >But that's the other way around, .debug_info references .debug_line.  In
> >this case we have .debug_line with no .debug_info, which should be OK.
> 
> Does that make sense though ?  A .debug_line compilation unit which does 
> not correspond to any .debug_info compilation unit ?  What lines would 
> it be describing ?  Why would these lines exist without any debug info ?

.debug_line by itself gives you a mapping between addresses and source
file line numbers.  That might be all a tool needs.

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre
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