PATCH: Add -N to readelf to display section name
Alan Modra
amodra@bigpond.net.au
Fri Apr 1 11:13:00 GMT 2005
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 11:55:55AM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> >>>>It is very annoying that readelf won't display full section names. This
>
> I realise that the patch has already been applied, but it seems to me
> that adding a new switch to control the displaying of the full section
> name is wrong - I think that this ought to be controlled by the already
> existing "--wide" switch. ie if you specify --wide on the command line
> you get the full section names and wider-than-80-character output,
> whereas if you omit the switch you get possibly truncated section names
> and restricted-to-a-maximum-of-80-characters output.
I think this was discussed before, with someone making a point that
--wide is supposed to not split output lines. HJ's patch puts the
section name on a separate line.
--
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre
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