Add -p option to readelf so that sections can be dumped as strings
Daniel Jacobowitz
drow@false.org
Thu Aug 30 13:04:00 GMT 2007
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 12:58:44PM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I am going to check in the attached patch which adds a -p command
> line option to readelf. This option can be used to dump the
> contents of a named or numbered section section as a sequence of
> strings and it is modelled after the same ability in the readelf tool
> in the elfutils package.
>
> The patch includes an update to the documentation and a test case
> for the new ability. I have tested it with loads of different
> toolchains and found no problems or regressions.
Nothing in the NEWS or documentation entries tells me what the output
looks like; neither does the test since it uses wildcards. What sort
of strings are they? Raw byte dumps?
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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