[patch] Add printing of .gdb_index section to readelf

Tom Tromey tromey at redhat.com
Mon Apr 18 17:44:37 UTC 2011


>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Wielaard <mjw at redhat.com> writes:

Mark> Note that libdw relies on .debug_aranges. For example dwarf_addrdie (),
Mark> which returns the CU DIE containing a given address, just returns NULL
Mark> if the aranges section isn't there.

Yeah.  What makes this bug theoretical is that, AFAIK, nobody has seen
it happen in the wild.  In practice, a missing .debug_aranges entry
means that the CU covers no addresses.

Tom


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