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authorNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2015-02-24 11:10:07 +0000
committerNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2015-02-24 11:10:07 +0000
commit0821d5b14efc2fb0c929ba077855cbc5e7a0932a (patch)
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Improves the warning message produyced by objdump when it cannot load a section.
* objdump.c (dump_section): Extend the warning message displayed when a section cannot be loaded.
-rw-r--r--binutils/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--binutils/objdump.c3
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/binutils/ChangeLog b/binutils/ChangeLog
index 20abfe6..1128b4a 100644
--- a/binutils/ChangeLog
+++ b/binutils/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2015-02-24 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+ * objdump.c (dump_section): Extend the warning message displayed
+ when a section cannot be loaded.
+
2015-02-21 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
* readelf.c (process_program_headers): Add newline to warning
diff --git a/binutils/objdump.c b/binutils/objdump.c
index 98e4d86..f690293 100644
--- a/binutils/objdump.c
+++ b/binutils/objdump.c
@@ -2800,7 +2800,8 @@ dump_section (bfd *abfd, asection *section, void *dummy ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED)
if (!bfd_get_full_section_contents (abfd, section, &data))
{
- non_fatal (_("Reading section failed"));
+ non_fatal (_("Reading section %s failed because: %s"),
+ section->name, bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
return;
}