libdw errors for DW_FORM_GNU_strp_alt attributes

Florian Weimer fweimer at redhat.com
Tue Apr 8 16:18:40 UTC 2014


On 04/07/2014 06:29 PM, Josh Stone wrote:
> On 04/07/2014 08:55 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> Thanks for the explanation.  I find it kind of surprising that libdw
>> goes behind my back and opens random files based on paths extracted from
>> the data I supply.  I would have expected that from libdwfl, not libdw.
>
> Yes, in fact this was in Mark's 0.159 planning email:
>
> - Move .gnu_debugaltlink handling from libdw to libdwfl and make
>    ENABLE_DWZ the default. As discussed before:
> https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/elfutils-devel/2013-December/003626.html

Interesting.  I've submitted a first patch in that direction.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team


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