The "-W|--wide" option?

Ian Lance Taylor iant@google.com
Tue Sep 27 13:26:00 GMT 2011


Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> writes:

> Essentially the purpose of -W is to prevent truncation, usually of
> filenames or function names.  Tools that use the output from readelf
> must decide if they want full or truncated names and invoke the tool
> appropriately.

I have to say that I find the truncation extremely annoying, and I would
never ever under any circumstances want file names or function names or
symbol names or section names to be truncated.  I always use --wide with
readelf.

Ian



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