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title="NEW - Improve error message for malformed ELF"
href="https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40866">40866</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>Improve error message for malformed ELF
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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>The error message produced by llvm-readobj when there is a parse failure is
unhelpful:
"Error reading file: Invalid data was encountered while parsing the file."
In the particular case I'm seeing it, the file has been modified such that the
offset/size fields of the dynamic segment point after the end of the file.
Ideally the error message would say what went wrong specifically, e.g.
"PT_DYNAMIC segment does not appear to be wholly within the file. p_offset =
0x1234, p_filesz = 0x4321, file size = 0x1000".</pre>
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