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Re: PATCH: PR binutils/12639: nm/readelf failed to detect corrupted symtab
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 11:02:06PM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> d) nm/readelf reports error on those bad input files.
>
> That is what my patch implements.
Not exactly. Your elfcode.h:elf_slurp_symbol_table patch issues a
message but doesn't return an error. I think you ought to call
bfd_set_error and exit the function via error_return.
On the readelf patch, I'd be inclined to report "Bad symtab" at the
end of the symbol table and not special case mips.
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM