Hi Guys,
I am checking in the attached patch to add a warning message to
display_debug_loc() if it detects that there are unused bytes at the
end of the .debug_loc section.
Cheers
Nick
binutils/ChangeLog
2007-11-20 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
* dwarf.c (display_debug_loc): Issue a warning if there are bytes
at the end of the .debug_loc section which are not referenced by
any attribute in the .debug_info section.
Index: binutils/dwarf.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/binutils/dwarf.c,v
retrieving revision 1.20
diff -c -3 -p -r1.20 dwarf.c
*** binutils/dwarf.c 16 Nov 2007 15:36:21 -0000 1.20
--- binutils/dwarf.c 21 Nov 2007 11:55:38 -0000
*************** display_debug_loc (struct dwarf_section
*** 2624,2629 ****
--- 2624,2633 ----
}
}
}
+
+ if (start < section_end)
+ warn (_("There are %ld unused bytes at the end of section %s\n"),
+ section_end - start, section->name);
return 1;
}