[Bug binutils/22249] objdump --dwarf-start can be very slow

[mjw at fedoraproject dot org]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22249

Mark Wielaard <mjw at fedoraproject dot org> changed:

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--- Comment #12 from Mark Wielaard <mjw at fedoraproject dot org> ---
(In reply to Tom Tromey from comment #4)
> (In reply to Nick Clifton from comment #2)
> >   I think that this may be a mistake in the documentation however, as this
> > does not appear to match the behaviour of the code.
> 
> It is, because the intent (I added this feature initially) was to pass in the
> DIE offset -- I suppose I used the term "number" because DIEs are always
> referred to by offset, so I didn't consider any possible confusion here.

Not every offset is a DIE "number". There is some slight confusion what happens
if the offset is in the middle of a DIE, should it back up and print that one
or should it start printing at the first offset after that is a DIE "number"?

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