Machine Readable output formats?

[John Carter]

I have been using binutils for various datamining tasks for decades now....

...and it's always a sore point with me that the first step is always to
write a one-off custom somewhat kludgy parser to read the output format.

Is there any initiative afoot to producing machine readable output formats
such as csv or json or yaml or...?

My typical destination for these activities is either a ruby script or
sqlite.

Would the maintainers object to a pull requests that added such a feature
(probably easier than doing half baked parsers)?

What would the preferred output format be?

What would the preferred command line interface be (eg. Instead of the
usual bsd / posix / sysv ... options on --format= add --format=csv or
something?)

In my ideal  dream universe there would be a "convert everything elf and
dwarf knows about this large collection of files into a well designed
relational data model in a sqlite db" switch.

But that may be a step too far.

Thanks,

-- 
John Carter
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Tait Electronics
PO Box 1645 Christchurch
New Zealand

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