I happened to run readelf on an ELF file created by Guile. readelf
complained about invalid values for DW_FORM_strp. At first I assumed
this was just a Guile bug, but eu-readelf did the right thing, so I
looked a bit deeper.
I came across some old Mach-O code to bias some offsets by section
addresses. Guile, unlike many ELF writers, sets the address for the
various DWARF-related sections, causing this unusual code to be run.