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Yep, Wolfgang picked up on the one thing I saw too. This is why I like having people review my stuff. I think it's a bit of a pity that str_offsets_base can point into the middle of a str_offsets contribution in some ways Actually I changed my mind after saying that in the review, and in this writeup I concluded that it cannot do that. str_offsets_base points to the element immediately after the header. You can have multiple units sharing the (e...

...Subject: [llvm-dev] [DWARFv5] Reading the .debug_str_offsets section > > > snip ... > > > > Things get way trickier in an object (executable or "-r" ouput) that > > has a mix of GCC and standard contributions. AFAICT there's no > > equivalent of DW_AT_str_offsets_base in the GCC style, so about all > > we can do is something like this: > > (1) Walk through all units to find all DW_AT_str_offsets_base pointers; > > (2) for each one, poke around in the prior 8-16 bytes looking for > > the header; this is more reliable than it sounds; &g...