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Re: Improvements to the output of readelf -wline
- From: Mark Wielaard <mjw at redhat dot com>
- To: elfutils-devel at lists dot fedorahosted dot org
- Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:10:53 +0100
- Subject: Re: Improvements to the output of readelf -wline
On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 14:37 +0100, Petr Machata wrote:
> I'd like to make -wline output more regular and useful. Currently lines
> describing opcodes are formatted inconsistently either with or without
> initial space. That's probably an aesthetic nit, I don't think that
> there is a pattern to it.
>
> Second, more important change is that I'd like to prefix opcode lines
> with their offset. This should aid debugging and reviewing dwarflint
> citations.
Changes look good to me. Indeed more consistent and more useful.
But it would be even more consistent if the offsets were printed as in
the .debug_info section. So using "%6zx" to make them all the same
width.
> Both changes are on the branch pmachata/readelf.
BTW. I still prefer seeing patches on the list whenever possible.
Thanks,
Mark