Re: readelf vs dwarfstrings

[Mark Wielaard <mjw at redhat dot com>]

On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 14:36 -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> The place to start for master is just to update the readelf.c tables
> without reorganizing anything.  Commit that first.

OK, pushed that. And a matching commit to the dwarf branch, just to make
sure that for now they are in sync.

> On the dwarf branch, we should be getting rid of all hand-maintained tables
> entirely.  We have libdw/known-dwarf.h, which is updated automagically
> under --enable-maintainer-mode.  Anything using C++ code, such as
> dwarflint, should be using the existing interfaces built from that, like
> dwarf::tags::identifier and dwarf::attributes::identifier (or ::name,
> depending what output you want).  There is also dwarf::forms and
> dwarf::ops.  The attribute-value name tables are only available via
> dwarf*::dwarf_enum::to_string.  It's possible we need to add something to
> make those easier to use outside their uses in ...::attribute::to_string.
> But off hand it looks to me like you can just instantiate a
> dwarf_{data,edit}::dwarf_enum object and use the to_string, identifier, or
> name methods on it.

I cleaned up the usage in the tests that I added. Haven't gone over the
other usage in dwarflint. Petr let me know if you want me to do that.

Thanks,

Mark