------- Additional Comments From nickc at redhat dot com  2008-08-14 10:42 
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Subject: Re:  Crash while handling DW_AT_abstract_origin
 for    a last comp unit

Hi Dmitry,

>> If you run your ELF binary through "readelf -w" does it report any
>> problems with the debug information ?
> 
> Yes, a lot of. Like this:
> readelf: Warning: There is a hole [0xab1ea0 - 0xab2551] in .debug_loc section.
> readelf: Warning: There is an overlap [0xab25ab - 0xab1ea0] in .debug_loc 
> sectio
> n.

So the DWARF information in the ELF file is broken ?  That would explain 
why this problem has not been encountered by other people.

>> Without a test case and a procedure to follow to reproduce the bug, I
>> really do not think that we are going to be able to solve this
>> problem.  Are you sure that you cannot provide us with an ELF file ?
>> You could always zero out the proprietary information first before
>> uploading it.
> 
> I'm afraid I will need to remove whole debug info in order to remove this
> proprietary info. 

How can the debug info be proprietary ?  Maybe some of the symbol names, 
but you can always change those.

Cheers
   Nick



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