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Re: PATCH: Add -N to readelf to display section name
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
- To: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- Cc: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>, Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>,binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 20:43:16 +0930
- Subject: Re: PATCH: Add -N to readelf to display section name
- References: <20050331210639.GA9469@lucon.org> <jebr8zfrea.fsf@sykes.suse.de> <20050331225627.GA11433@lucon.org> <20050331234925.GB20449@bubble.modra.org> <424D28BB.80104@redhat.com>
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 11:55:55AM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> >>>>It is very annoying that readelf won't display full section names. This
>
> I realise that the patch has already been applied, but it seems to me
> that adding a new switch to control the displaying of the full section
> name is wrong - I think that this ought to be controlled by the already
> existing "--wide" switch. ie if you specify --wide on the command line
> you get the full section names and wider-than-80-character output,
> whereas if you omit the switch you get possibly truncated section names
> and restricted-to-a-maximum-of-80-characters output.
I think this was discussed before, with someone making a point that
--wide is supposed to not split output lines. HJ's patch puts the
section name on a separate line.
--
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre