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From: Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
To: Bob Wilson <bwilson@tensilica.com>
Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] inconsistent DWARF2 sections generated by --gdwarf2
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 03:31:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041118033117.GD17083@bubble.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41990311.3060504@tensilica.com>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-18  3:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-15 19:27 Bob Wilson
2004-11-18  3:31 ` Alan Modra [this message]
2004-11-18  8:39   ` Nick Clifton
2004-11-18  8:59     ` Alan Modra
2004-11-18  9:18       ` Nick Clifton
2004-11-18 11:58         ` Alan Modra
2004-11-18 14:22           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-11-18 18:14             ` Bob Wilson
2004-11-18 18:42               ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-11-22 12:19               ` Nick Clifton

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