[DWARF/RFC] end-address overflow in location description entry

Jan Kratochvil jan.kratochvil@redhat.com
Wed Nov 10 05:06:00 GMT 2010


On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 20:42:01 +0100, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> Here is the actual patch (lacking comments, but this is only for
> experimenting). If we decide to handle this situation, I'll add
> proper comments.

FYI it seems correct to me, GDB should be relaxed on input.

Such DWARF does not conform to DWARF-4 2.6.2 Location Lists.

For sanity checking DWARF there is a separate tool under development
- dwarflint, by Petr Machata, dwarlint is a part of elfutils.


Regards,
Jan



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