RFC: readelf: Explain why LLVM bitcode files cannot be read
Nick Clifton
nickc@redhat.com
Mon Aug 22 10:18:09 GMT 2022
Hi Jeff,
> I think the same issue arises with golang -- its .o files are not ELF, but can be read by the golang variants of objdump, nm, etc. So you might want to look at doing
> something similar for golang as well.
A great idea. I have recoded the patch to create a new function
which checks the magic number, and if it is not ELF then it tests
for LLVM bitcode files and golang object files. This time I have
put the magic numbers into a static array, so it should be easy to
add more sequences should we wish to do so.
Cheers
Nick
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