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Re: Is -dis-symname supported by binutils?
Hi,
On Tue, 15 Jan 2019, Nick Clifton wrote:
> > Shouldn't it use the size of the symbol instead (at least on ELF)?
> > Or disregard anything but function symbols for determining the next
> > symbol?
>
> You are right - it should skip non-function symbols. I will create a
> patch...
I don't like many of these consistency checks. objdump is a low level
tool, when I'm using --disassemble=foobar I'm presumably knowning what I'm
doing, and certainly I want to see that symbol be disassembled. If I
happened to forget marking that symbol as function in my asm sources, or
if it happens to be a data array containing instruction bytes, I still
want it disassembled because I said so on the command line. I.e. please
don't add such check.
Ciao,
Michael.