What to do with info addr and location expressions

[Andrew Cagney]

> Hi Jim,
> 
> 
>>> One thing though - readelf does not, and should not, used the bfd
>>> library.  One of its main goals is to provide an alternative to bfd
>>> for parsing and displaying ELF files, so that it can act as a
>>> sanity/bug check.
> 
>>
>> The natural home for such code would be a libdwarf, but we don't have
>> that yet.  In the the mean time, could the code live in libiberty,
>> like the demangler?
> 
> 
> I do not think that this is really suitable for libiberty.
> 
> The simplest method would be to break the code out into a separate
> file that lives in the binutils/ directory and which could then be
> compiled into either readelf or gdb.

That would mean bundling the binutils directory in with GDB.  Hmm ...

Andrew