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Re: [patch] readelf.c - dump .eh_frame sections


Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> writes:

> I think that it is a good idea.  The whole point of readelf is to
> display the contents of ELF files in a readable fashion to allow
> people to examine them, and possibly debug them.

It must be possible to pinpoint the location of the data in the file
which generated a specific output line.  This is the original intend
of the program, we needed something to help debugging gas, ld, ld.so.

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