[PATCH] inconsistent DWARF2 sections generated by --gdwarf2

Alan Modra amodra@bigpond.net.au
Thu Nov 18 03:31:00 GMT 2004


On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 11:27:13AM -0800, Bob Wilson wrote:
> probably harmless for GDB, but it breaks readelf, which expects a 
> one-to-one correspondence between .debug_info and .debug_line sections.  

I would say that this is a readelf bug.  The only reason that readelf
needs .debug_info when dumping .debug_line is to find the size of
addresses.  readelf could guess that some other way.

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre



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