From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17523 invoked by alias); 1 Apr 2005 11:13:35 -0000 Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 17374 invoked from network); 1 Apr 2005 11:13:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gizmo02ps.bigpond.com) (144.140.71.12) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 1 Apr 2005 11:13:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 1896 invoked from network); 1 Apr 2005 11:13:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO psmam12.bigpond.com) (144.135.25.103) by gizmo02ps.bigpond.com with SMTP; 1 Apr 2005 11:13:17 -0000 Received: from cpe-144-136-221-26.sa.bigpond.net.au ([144.136.221.26]) by psmam12.bigpond.com(MAM REL_3_4_2a 234/840007) with SMTP id 840007; Fri, 01 Apr 2005 21:13:16 +1000 Received: by bubble.modra.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id B035A1A0F48; Fri, 1 Apr 2005 20:43:16 +0930 Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 11:13:00 -0000 From: Alan Modra To: Nick Clifton Cc: "H. J. Lu" , Andreas Schwab , binutils@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: PATCH: Add -N to readelf to display section name Message-ID: <20050401111316.GI27909@bubble.modra.org> Mail-Followup-To: Nick Clifton , "H. J. Lu" , Andreas Schwab , binutils@sources.redhat.com References: <20050331210639.GA9469@lucon.org> <20050331225627.GA11433@lucon.org> <20050331234925.GB20449@bubble.modra.org> <424D28BB.80104@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <424D28BB.80104@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-SW-Source: 2005-04/txt/msg00021.txt.bz2 On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 11:55:55AM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote: > Hi Guys, > > >>>>It is very annoying that readelf won't display full section names. This > > I realise that the patch has already been applied, but it seems to me > that adding a new switch to control the displaying of the full section > name is wrong - I think that this ought to be controlled by the already > existing "--wide" switch. ie if you specify --wide on the command line > you get the full section names and wider-than-80-character output, > whereas if you omit the switch you get possibly truncated section names > and restricted-to-a-maximum-of-80-characters output. I think this was discussed before, with someone making a point that --wide is supposed to not split output lines. HJ's patch puts the section name on a separate line. -- Alan Modra IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre