[PATCH] Handle GNU Build Attribute ELF Notes.

Mark Wielaard mark@klomp.org
Tue Nov 13 12:49:00 GMT 2018


On Tue, 2018-11-13 at 11:56 +0000, Nick Clifton wrote:
> + /* There might or might not be a pair of addresses in the desc.  */
> 
> FYI - There was an old version of the Watermark specification that only put
> one address into the note's desc field.  This version was never used in
> production binaries, so it is unlikely that such notes will ever be found in
> the wild.

If it never happens in production binaries lets ignore this quirk.

> Anyway although I am not an official elfutils reviewer the patch
> looks great
> to me.  I hope that it will be accepted into the sources.

Lets do that then :) It also resolves the self-test failure on Fedora
29, so it should make the buildbot happy again. Pushed to master.

Thanks,

Mark



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