PATCH: Add -N to readelf to display section name
Nick Clifton
nickc@redhat.com
Fri Apr 1 11:28:00 GMT 2005
Hi Alan,
>>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.
Ah - OK - thanks for the explanation.
By the way, just being picky, but shouldn't a new switch like this be
documented in binutils/doc/binutils.texi and mentioned in
binutils/NEWS... ? :-)
Cheers
Nick
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