Bug 29786 - Unable to understand, in objdump, the user is not using the name, so using a.out
Summary: Unable to understand, in objdump, the user is not using the name, so using a.out
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
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Product: elfutils
Classification: Unclassified
Component: tools (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
: P2 normal
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Reported: 2022-11-15 20:52 UTC by lin zhuorong
Modified: 2022-11-15 20:55 UTC (History)
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Description lin zhuorong 2022-11-15 20:52:19 UTC 
Unable to understand, in objdump, the user is not using the name, so using a.out

Why not use an empty string?


elfutils-0.187\src\objdump.c

```
  if (remaining == argc)
    /* The user didn't specify a name so we use a.out.  */
    result = process_file ("a.out", false);

```
Comment 1 Frank Ch. Eigler 2022-11-15 20:55:54 UTC 
Why not use an empty string as a filename?  A user can type

     eu-objdump ""

to pass an empty string if that's really what she wants.
Defaulting to "a.out" in the absence of a filename is traditional.