[Dwarf-Discuss] DWARF dumpers should note compressed sections

2018-08-03 Thread Paul Robinson via Dwarf-Discuss
Recently somebody was poking around looking at compressed DWARF sections, and observed that some tools (dwarfdump, objdump, readelf) were dumping them just fine, but without any indication that the original section was compressed (citing ELF flag SHF_COMPRESSED). If anybody on this list happens to

Re: [Dwarf-Discuss] DWARF dumpers should note compressed sections

2018-08-03 Thread John DelSignore via Dwarf-Discuss
Hi Paul, TotalView recently got snagged on this with a GNU DebugFission style Split-DWARF .dwo file. A customer had things set up such that -gz=zlib was the default for their compiler, and it was producing compressed debug sections in the .dwo file, where the only hint that the section was comp