[Dwarf-Discuss] How many sections? 36

[David Anderson]

To productively read DWARF comprehensively
(DWARF2? and later)
it is useful to access the following? 36 sections.
Some of them non-standard.

".debug_abbrev",
".debug_addr",
".debug_aranges",
".debug_cu_index",
".debug_frame",
".debug_funcnames",
".debug_gnu_pubnames",
".debug_gnu_pubtypes",
".debug_info",
".debug_line",
".debug_line_str",
".debug_loc",
".debug_loclists",
".debug_macinfo",
".debug_macro",
".debug_names",
".debug_pubnames",
".debug_pubtypes",
".debug_ranges",
".debug_rnglists",
".debug_str",
".debug_str_offsets",
".debug_sup",
".debug_tu_index",
".debug_typenames",
".debug_types",
".debug_varnames",
".debug_weaknames",
".eh_frame",
".gdb_index",
".gnu_debuglink",
".note.gnu.build-id",
".strtab",
".symtab",

(not everyone needs to read all of them, but.., quite a list.)

The .dwo sections listed? in DWARF5 add 8 more sections.

Not mentioning relocation sections...
Not mentioning some non-standard sections...

I'm just running a test and thought to count them
while waiting ...
David Anderson

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