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| author | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2009-05-28 11:02:22 +0000 |
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| committer | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2009-05-28 11:02:22 +0000 |
| commit | 5dff79d83d209d48f13ad385ae8dc3e690bf9295 (patch) | |
| tree | 7cb1947c2411a8df8a959de8dd74f160e82842b9 /binutils | |
| parent | 5ebe285860e3d407b0607c06978b6737bff5c1fb (diff) | |
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* readelf.c (display_debug_section): Do not display debug sections
with the NOBITS section type.
Diffstat (limited to 'binutils')
| -rw-r--r-- | binutils/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | binutils/readelf.c | 9 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/binutils/ChangeLog b/binutils/ChangeLog index ed09c83..cf3eaec 100644 --- a/binutils/ChangeLog +++ b/binutils/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2009-05-28 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> + + * readelf.c (display_debug_section): Do not display debug sections + with the NOBITS section type. + 2009-05-27 Nathan Sidwell <nathan@codesourcery.com> * sysdump.c (tab): Use puts rather than two printfs. diff --git a/binutils/readelf.c b/binutils/readelf.c index 30bcf66..4727a84 100644 --- a/binutils/readelf.c +++ b/binutils/readelf.c @@ -8539,6 +8539,15 @@ display_debug_section (Elf_Internal_Shdr * section, FILE * file) printf (_("\nSection '%s' has no debugging data.\n"), name); return 0; } + if (section->sh_type == SHT_NOBITS) + { + /* There is no point in dumping the contents of a debugging section + which has the NOBITS type - the bits in the file will be random. + This can happen when a file containing a .eh_frame section is + stripped with the --only-keep-debug command line option. */ + printf (_("section '%s' has the NOBITS type - its contents are unreliable.\n"), name); + return 0; + } if (const_strneq (name, ".gnu.linkonce.wi.")) name = ".debug_info"; |