2009-05-28 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>

[deliverable/binutils-gdb.git] / binutils / readelf.c

diff --git a/binutils/readelf.c b/binutils/readelf.c
index 30bcf6672b0fa8075503da2e5e3a123980fc7340..4727a840cbcf35a65c10de328162ecc1eeda6faa 100644 (file)
--- a/binutils/readelf.c
+++ b/binutils/readelf.c
@@ -8539,6 +8539,15 @@ display_debug_section (Elf_Internal_Shdr * section, FILE * file)
       printf (_("\nSection '%s' has no debugging data.\n"), name);
       return 0;
     }
+  if (section->sh_type == SHT_NOBITS)
+    {
+      /* There is no point in dumping the contents of a debugging section
+        which has the NOBITS type - the bits in the file will be random.
+        This can happen when a file containing a .eh_frame section is
+        stripped with the --only-keep-debug command line option.  */
+      printf (_("section '%s' has the NOBITS type - its contents are unreliable.\n"), name);
+      return 0;
+    }
 
   if (const_strneq (name, ".gnu.linkonce.wi."))
     name = ".debug_info";