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Re: [patch] Add printing of .gdb_index section to readelf
- From: Mark Wielaard <mjw at redhat dot com>
- To: elfutils-devel at lists dot fedorahosted dot org
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:52:45 +0200
- Subject: Re: [patch] Add printing of .gdb_index section to readelf
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