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Re: Is -dis-symname supported by binutils?

On Jan 21 2019, Michael Matz <matz@suse.de> wrote:

> 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.

If you want to disassemble a non-exec section you have to use -D aka
--disassemble-all.

Andreas.

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