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Re: [patch] Add printing of .gdb_index section to readelf
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- To: elfutils-devel at lists dot fedorahosted dot org
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:16:42 -0700
- Subject: Re: [patch] Add printing of .gdb_index section to readelf
> 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.
> It was already useful BTW. We found out gdb was outputting bad/redundant
> CU indexes by inspecting the output produced by eu-readelf. Which Tom
> already fixed.
> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-04/msg00224.html
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.