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Re: detect special mips64le dwarf2 line number length encoding
On Jan 20, 2003, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> wrote:
> While I hate to dump more work on you, I would really rather we pursue
> this than propogate the nonstandard IRIX approach to this. I really
> don't think it would be much of a difficulty.
Well, then, I can add this to my personal LINO to-do list, but I still
think the patch must go in, at the very least for compatibility with
mips64el binutils that have been out there for a while. This change
might look minor at first, but it actually fixes a linker crash, when
it tries to find out the line number associated with a given address,
to report a warning. Object files created using the current tools are
subject to this problem. Then, whenever we switch to the standard
format, everything will just keep on working, even in a
backward-compatible way.
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