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Re: What to do with info addr and location expressions

Hi Guys

> [added binutils: gdb needs a way of printing out dwarf2 location
> expressions]
>
> Why not share the readelf code?  Print both the actual expression and
> (for simple cases) an English translation.

readelf was not written with the intention of being used as a
library.  That does not mean however that the expression printing code
could not be moved into a separate file and then compiled in to both
gdb and readelf.

One thing though - readelf does not, and should not, used the bfd
library.  One of its main goals is to provide an alternative to bfd
for parsing and displaying ELF files, so that it can act as a
sanity/bug check.

Cheers
        Nick
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