PATCH: Add support for "thin" archives

Cary Coutant ccoutant@google.com
Fri Mar 28 17:59:00 GMT 2008


>  I do have one request however - please could you supply a patch to
>  readelf to allow it to process thin archives in the same way that it can
>  currently process ordinary archives.  (Including supporting the
>  --archive-index option).

OK, will do.

>  Approved and applied.  I made a few small changes, mostly formatting,
>  although I did also take the time to fix the few cases where you
>  declared a variable in the middle of a block of code, and the AIX
>  emulation support.

Thanks! Sorry for the formatting gaffes.

>  PS. I have not checked yet, but are thin archives compatible with Ian's
>  new linker ?

I have a patch ready for it; I was holding off, at Ian's
recommendation, until the binutils patch was accepted.

-cary



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