diff --git a/pkg/dwarf/frame/entries.go b/pkg/dwarf/frame/entries.go
index 4c6f94d0..1e4605ce 100644
--- a/pkg/dwarf/frame/entries.go
+++ b/pkg/dwarf/frame/entries.go
@@ -108,8 +108,8 @@ func (fdes FrameDescriptionEntries) Append(otherFDEs FrameDescriptionEntries) Fr
 // ptrEnc represents a pointer encoding value, used during eh_frame decoding
 // to determine how pointers were encoded.
 // Least significant 4 (0xf) bytes encode the size  as well as its
-// signed-ness,  most significant 4 bytes (0xf0) are flags describing how
-// the value should be interpreted (absolute, relative...)
+// signed-ness,  most significant 4 bytes (0xf0 == ptrEncFlagsMask) are flags
+// describing how the value should be interpreted (absolute, relative...)
 // See https://www.airs.com/blog/archives/460.
 type ptrEnc uint8
 
@@ -126,12 +126,16 @@ const (
 	ptrEncSdata4 ptrEnc = 0x0b // 4 bytes, signed
 	ptrEncSdata8 ptrEnc = 0x0c // 8 bytes, signed
 
+	ptrEncFlagsMask ptrEnc = 0xf0
+
 	ptrEncPCRel    ptrEnc = 0x10 // value is relative to the memory address where it appears
 	ptrEncTextRel  ptrEnc = 0x20 // value is relative to the address of the text section
 	ptrEncDataRel  ptrEnc = 0x30 // value is relative to the address of the data section
 	ptrEncFuncRel  ptrEnc = 0x40 // value is relative to the start of the function
 	ptrEncAligned  ptrEnc = 0x50 // value should be aligned
 	ptrEncIndirect ptrEnc = 0x80 // value is an address where the real value of the pointer is stored
+
+	ptrEncSupportedFlags = ptrEncPCRel
 )
 
 // Supported returns true if this pointer encoding is supported.
@@ -142,7 +146,7 @@ func (ptrEnc ptrEnc) Supported() bool {
 			// These values aren't defined at the moment
 			return false
 		}
-		if ptrEnc&0xf0 != ptrEncPCRel {
+		if (ptrEnc&ptrEncFlagsMask)&^ptrEncSupportedFlags != 0 {
 			// Currently only the PC relative flag is supported
 			return false
 		}
diff --git a/pkg/dwarf/frame/parser.go b/pkg/dwarf/frame/parser.go
index bcec7e56..147ca34f 100644
--- a/pkg/dwarf/frame/parser.go
+++ b/pkg/dwarf/frame/parser.go
@@ -201,12 +201,13 @@ func parseCIE(ctx *parseContext) parsefunc {
 				// the pointer to the personality function encoded as specified by the
 				// pointer encoding.
 				// We don't support this but have to read it anyway.
-				e, _ := buf.ReadByte()
-				if !ptrEnc(e).Supported() {
+				b, _ := buf.ReadByte()
+				e := ptrEnc(b) &^ ptrEncIndirect
+				if !e.Supported() {
 					ctx.err = fmt.Errorf("pointer encoding not supported %#x at %#x", e, ctx.offset())
 					return nil
 				}
-				ctx.readEncodedPtr(0, buf, ptrEnc(e))
+				ctx.readEncodedPtr(0, buf, e)
 			default:
 				ctx.err = fmt.Errorf("unsupported augmentation character %c at %#x", ctx.common.Augmentation[i], ctx.offset())
 				return nil