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title="NEW - Improve --string-dump invalid section error message"
href="https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40630">40630</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>Improve --string-dump invalid section error message
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<th>Product</th>
<td>tools
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<th>Version</th>
<td>trunk
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>PC
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<th>OS</th>
<td>Windows NT
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>enhancement
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>P
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<th>Component</th>
<td>llvm-readobj
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>unassignedbugs@nondot.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>jh7370.2008@my.bristol.ac.uk
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<td>jh7370.2008@my.bristol.ac.uk, llvm-bugs@lists.llvm.org
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<pre>Currently, if you do --string-dump (or potentially other similar options), with
an invalid input (e.g. an out-of-range section index or section that does not
exist), llvm-readobj produces the error "Error reading file: invalid section
reference":
C:\Work>llvm-readobj --string-dump=does_not_exist foo.o
Format: ELF64-x86-64
Arch: x86_64
AddressSize: 64bit
LoadName:
Error reading file: invalid section reference.
C:\Work>
There are two problems with this error message. Firstly, it incorrectly claims
that there was a problem reading the file, where really the problem was a bad
input. Secondly, the error message makes no reference to the source of the
reference or why it is bad. Both these aspects should be improved.</pre>
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