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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