kklic(a)redhat.com (Karel Klíč) writes:
Mark Wielaard <mjw(a)redhat.com> writes:
> On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 15:20 +0200, Karel Klíč wrote:
>> I have solved the issue by avoiding the dwarf_getsrcfiles call.
> What are you using now instead?
I use just libelf. As I need only a small fraction of DWARF data, the
code extracting it directly is straightforward (and was easy to finish
as libdw is well written and so is the DWARF specification).
I tried to use libdw, but my use case doesn't match it well. libdw is
focused on helping the users of DWARF data (--> hiding details such as
offsets behind interfaces), and I only need to get some headers and
offsets. Information I was really interested in was not exposed.
Hmm, a lot of this code is already present in dwarflint, including the
(much more stringent than libdw's) consistency checks. It probably
makes little sense to write this as a dwarflint pass, but this
cut'n'paste job is annoying, too.
I wonder what to do about it. Is this sort of inspection something that
you will often end up having to write? I guess I might bend dwarflint a
bit to make it more library-ish.
PM