[Bug binutils/18209] New: objdump -h is not very helpful printing decompressed section names

[dje at google dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18209

            Bug ID: 18209
           Summary: objdump -h is not very helpful printing decompressed
                    section names
           Product: binutils
           Version: unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: binutils
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: dje at google dot com

This is totally unintuitive.

objdump -h foo.o shows the section .debug_gnu_pubnames,
which I wanted to dump, so I did
objdump -s -j .debug_gnu_pubnames foo.o
which gave me
/build/binutils/binutils/objdump: section '.debug_gnu_pubnames' mentioned in a
-j option, but not found in any input file

Why wasn't it found?

readelf -S foo.o
-->
  [778] .zdebug_gnu_pubnames PROGBITS        0000000000000000 0091aa 002c01 00 
    0   0  1

I'm guessing it's this bit here:

static void
display_any_bfd (bfd *file, int level)
{
  /* Decompress sections unless dumping the section contents.  */
  if (!dump_section_contents)
    file->flags |= BFD_DECOMPRESS;

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