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Re: pending patches ping

From: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
To: elfutils-devel at lists dot fedorahosted dot org
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:03:02 +0100
Subject: Re: pending patches ping

On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:00:14 +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> I was just wondering if it was a real problem.

Without this patch the unwinder does not work at all.

> Does it matter in practice?

I am not sure. :-)

> So libdwfl lays out the ELF file differently. Can't you just
> use the start address that is given to the module?

Then I will provide to user a backtrace completely unrelated to his/her
crashed program.

> And I am wondering if it just makes things more consistent or whether it
> fixes a real bug.

The latter.

Thanks,
Jan

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