nm and objdump when no symbols
Alan Modra
amodra@bigpond.net.au
Sat Aug 10 00:39:00 GMT 2002
nm and objdump both display "filename: no symbols" to stderr when
given an object without any syms. Why? In particular, why print
to stderr? I propose changing the behaviour to printing the "no
symbols" message only when a symbol table dump is requested, and
printing the message to stdout. Objections?
i686-aout target gas test results:
/tmp/aout/gas/testsuite/../../binutils/objdump -dw -mi8086 dump.o > dump.out
/tmp/aout/gas/testsuite/../../binutils/objdump: dump.o: no symbols
FAIL: i386 intel16
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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre
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