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100430.1

Tom Tromey

aranges does not have debug info length

Enhancement

Deferred

Cary Coutant



Section 6.1.2, pg 121
Currently the .debug_aranges section header contains debug_info_offset.
However, it does not have a debug_info_length field.  Other "index"
sections, such as .debug_pubnames, do have this field.

The lack of this field means that it is not possible to determine
whether a CU is missing aranges information simply by scanning .debug_aranges.
Instead the reader must also scan .debug_info to construct the list
of CUs.

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Deferred, pending possible changes to lookup tables.

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