Re: What to do with info addr and location expressions

[Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>]

Hi Jim,

>> 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.
>
> The natural home for such code would be a libdwarf, but we don't have
> that yet.  In the the mean time, could the code live in libiberty,
> like the demangler?

I do not think that this is really suitable for libiberty.

The simplest method would be to break the code out into a separate
file that lives in the binutils/ directory and which could then be
compiled into either readelf or gdb.

Cheers
        Nick