Output format documentation
Ian Lance Taylor
ian@airs.com
Wed Sep 14 01:34:00 GMT 2005
Andrew STUBBS <andrew.stubbs@st.com> writes:
> E.g. What do the 'l', 'd', 'f' and zeros mean in the following?
> SYMBOL TABLE:
> a0000000 l d .text 00000000
'l' means a local symbol.
'd' means a debugging symbol.
'f' means a file symbol.
> Is there some documentation I have missed?
Probably not.
> Whether or not there are any now, please can I request that somebody
> in the know inserts some useful descriptions into the official docs
> for the next version of binutils. Some column header in the tool
> output might not be a bad plan either. I know there is a problem in
> that the different data formats have different output, but at least
> the most common one ought to have something written.
The documentation does indeed have many weaknesses. Patches are
welcome.
Ian
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