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PATCH: support compressed sections in addr2line, objdump, readelf

Hans-Peter Nilsson hans-peter.nilsson@axis.com
Fri Jul 11 10:48:00 GMT 2008 
> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:31:11 +0200

> Hans-Peter Nilsson <hans-peter.nilsson@axis.com> writes:
> 
> > It does for me.  I'd commit this fix as obvious...except there
> > are *two* "Minimum Instruction Length:" lines in objdump.W, and
> > the first one matches 1.  What's going on?  Is there a bug here?
> 
> The first one is in the explicit .debug_line header in the assembler
> source, the second one is the one generated by the assembler.  Normally
> you don't have an explicit .debug_line section in the assembler source,
> but rather use .loc pseudo-insns to let the assembler generate it.  That
> also means that we have to match the second, assembler generated header
> very loosely, since it has a few more target dependent values encoded.

Oh right, I found it now, like I should have done before, doh.
So, I committed my patch, posted previously, but without the CL typo. :)

brgds, H-P
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