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Re: readelf truncates symbol names in relocation sections
- From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- To: Nick Clifton <nickc at cambridge dot redhat dot com>
- Cc: "Julian v. Bock" <julian at OpenIT dot DE>, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 16:29:56 +0100
- Subject: Re: readelf truncates symbol names in relocation sections
- References: <lpheqou2ec.fsf@WarpCore.i.OpenIT.DE> <m3bsgwin29.fsf@north-pole.nickc.cambridge.redhat.com>
- Reply-to: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 03:07:42PM +0000, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Julian,
>
> > readelf (binutils-2.11.90.0.31) truncates symbol names in relocation
> > sections to 25 characters. This makes the output quite useless.
>
> Actually this is deliberate. It is intended to help make readelf's
> output more readable.
>
> > I have appended a patch that fixes this problem.
>
> Sorry this patch is not acceptable as is. The old behaviour needs to
> be retained somhow. Please consider either creating a new command
> line switch to enable the display of full length symbol names, or else
> attaching the ability to the already existing --wide switch.
I think it should be enabled by --wide.
Jakub