PATCH: Add archive support to ELF

Ian Lance Taylor ian@airs.com
Sat Aug 9 05:32:00 GMT 2003


"H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:

> This patch supports "readelf -s libfoo.a".

But the whole point of readelf is that it *doesn't* use the BFD
library.

The patch seems misguided to me.  If you want readelf to support
archives, it should includes its own code to read ELF archives.

Ian



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