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Re: inner block not inside outer block


On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 04:39:20PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 13:46:56 -0500
> > From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
> > 
> > You can't use readelf but I assume you can get one of
> > the other DWARF debugging tools to work - maybe dwarfdump - and figure
> > out what the actual bounds of the blocks in question are?
> 
> I tried dwarfdump (the version from 29-Aug-2001), but couldn't build
> it, not even on Debian GNU/Linux: it chokes on the missing definition
> of the `Elf' data type.  How did you manage to build it?  Is there
> perhaps a newer version that is better?  (I tried to google for it and
> found a pointer to Dave Anderson's page where there's supposed to be a
> version from this year, but that page seems to be unreachable.)
> 
> Or maybe there are alternative tools--what are they?

Well, the last time that I needed to use it it built OK on Debian
GNU/Linux; I was also using a 2001 version.  You may need to debug
GDB's dwarf2read instead and figure out what the debugging information
says that way :(

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


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