[Bug binutils/27478] [readelf] warning about missing section in separate debug info file

[vries at gcc dot gnu.org]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27478

--- Comment #9 from Tom de Vries <vries at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to Nick Clifton from comment #8)
> Hi Tom,
> 
>   OK, I have checked in a patch which should resolve this issue.
> 
>   The warning message was happening because readelf was trying to 
>   dump the contents of the .gnu_debugaltlink section in the '3' file,
>   which of course does not exist.  The patch adds a new option 
>   (--process-links) which must now be used in order to explicitly 
>   request that the other display options be applied to separate
>   debuginfo files as well as the main file.  Without this option,
>   only information from the main file will be displayed.  (The
>   exception being debug sections, which will be dumped from both
>   the main file and the separate debug info file, even if
>   --process-links is not enabled.  This is because in most cases
>   the debug sections are only present in either the main file or
>   the separate debuginfo file, but not both).


Hi Nick,

thanks for fixing this.  I've tested this against the dwz testsuite, and the
fails are gone.

- Tom

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