readelf truncates symbol names in relocation sections

Nick Clifton nickc@cambridge.redhat.com
Tue Dec 18 07:16:00 GMT 2001


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.

Cheers
        Nick



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