[patch] Add printing of .gdb_index section to readelf

Mark Wielaard mjw at redhat.com
Thu Apr 21 16:52:45 UTC 2011


On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 09:16 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > http://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/Index-Section-Format.html
> > I hope that resolves Roland's doubts about the usefulness of
> > parsing/outputting this section with eu-readelf.
> 
> It really doesn't have anything to do with the objection at all.

I thought the objection was that it wasn't properly
specified/standardized yet. Which it now is IMHO.

> I never said you shouldn't write something to parse it.  
> Obviously that is useful.  I just said it did not belong in eu-readelf.

I guess I could just use binutils readelf then. Pity, since I like the
eu-readelf output better to be honest.

Cheers,

Mark



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