Re: Broken assumption in readelf.c about location lists and compilation units

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Fred,

> The code in readelf.c which dumps the debug_loc section currently makes the 
> assumption
> that the location list terminator (start and end addresses of zero) marks the 
> end

This has been reported as PR binutils/615 and should now be fixed.

> I stumbled across this problem independently via:
>
>   $ cat s.c
>   main ()
>   {
>     {
>       int x;
>       x = getpid ();
>       printf ("pid = %d\n", x);
>     }
>     {
>       int x;
>       x = getuid ();
>       printf ("uid = %d\n", x);
>     }
>   }

Would you care to turn this into a binutils testsuite file to help check 
debug loc decoding by readelf ?

Cheers
  Nick