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Commit: objdump: Improve failed to read section warning message
- From: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- To: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 11:09:23 +0000
- Subject: Commit: objdump: Improve failed to read section warning message
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Hi Guys,
Whilst working on another patch, I noticed that the failed-to-read-
a-section warning message produced by objdump is not very helpful. It
does not say which section could not be loaded, nor why. So I am
checking in the patch below to fix this.
Cheers
Nick
binutils/ChangeLog
2015-02-24 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
* objdump.c (dump_section): Extend the warning message displayed
when a section cannot be loaded.
diff --git a/binutils/objdump.c b/binutils/objdump.c
index 98e4d86..f690293 100644
--- a/binutils/objdump.c
+++ b/binutils/objdump.c
@@ -2800,7 +2800,8 @@ dump_section (bfd *abfd, asection *section, void *dummy ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED)
if (!bfd_get_full_section_contents (abfd, section, &data))
{
- non_fatal (_("Reading section failed"));
+ non_fatal (_("Reading section %s failed because: %s"),
+ section->name, bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
return;
}