https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22249
Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp dot org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |mark at klomp dot org --- Comment #3 from Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp dot org> --- (In reply to Nick Clifton from comment #2) > * According to the documentation the --dwarf-start=N command line option > (which sets the dwarf_start_die variable) specifies the *number* of the DIE > at which output should start, not the starting address referenced by the > DIE. > > I think that this may be a mistake in the documentation however, as this > does not appear to match the behaviour of the code. Either that, or the > documentation is correct and the code is wrong. From the way that the > documentation is written however, it would appear that the code may be at > fault. I made the same observations when a request was made to add similar options to eu-readelf. There are a couple of other odd corner case behaviours too: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22250#c1 I think the documentation could certainly be improved/corrected. Making it stop at the end of the CU also seems like a good improvement. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-binutils