* Re: PATCH: Add -N to readelf to display section name
2005-04-01 11:28 ` Nick Clifton
@ 2005-04-01 14:45 ` H. J. Lu
2005-04-01 15:07 ` Nick Clifton
2005-04-01 14:49 ` PATCH: Document readelf -g H. J. Lu
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From: H. J. Lu @ 2005-04-01 14:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Nick Clifton; +Cc: Alan Modra, Andreas Schwab, binutils
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 12:25:46PM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> >>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.
>
> Ah - OK - thanks for the explanation.
>
> By the way, just being picky, but shouldn't a new switch like this be
> documented in binutils/doc/binutils.texi and mentioned in
> binutils/NEWS... ? :-)
>
Here is the patch. I also added -g.
H.J.
-----
2005-04-01 H.J. Lu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
* NEWS: Mention new readelf options, "-N/--full-section-name"
and "-g/--section-groups".
* doc/binutils.texi: Document new readelf options,
"-N/--full-section-name" and "-g/--section-groups".
--- binutils/NEWS.nn 2005-03-30 19:49:08.000000000 -0800
+++ binutils/NEWS 2005-04-01 06:35:19.744280021 -0800
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
-*- text -*-
+* Add "-N/--full-section-name" to readelf to display full section name.
+
* Add "-M entry:<addr>" switch to objdump to specify a function entry address
when disassembling VAX binaries.
@@ -8,6 +10,8 @@
Changes in 2.16:
+* Add "-g/--section-groups" to readelf to display section group.
+
* objcopy recognizes two new options --strip-unneeded-symbol and
--strip-unneeded-symbols, namely for use together with the wildcard
matching the original --strip-symbol/--strip-symbols provided, but
--- binutils/doc/binutils.texi.nn 2005-03-30 19:49:09.000000000 -0800
+++ binutils/doc/binutils.texi 2005-04-01 06:41:00.358170821 -0800
@@ -3242,6 +3242,8 @@ readelf [@option{-a}|@option{--all}]
[@option{-h}|@option{--file-header}]
[@option{-l}|@option{--program-headers}|@option{--segments}]
[@option{-S}|@option{--section-headers}|@option{--sections}]
+ [@option{-g}|@option{--section-groups}]
+ [@option{-N}|@option{--full-section-name}]
[@option{-e}|@option{--headers}]
[@option{-s}|@option{--syms}|@option{--symbols}]
[@option{-n}|@option{--notes}]
@@ -3312,6 +3314,17 @@ has any.
Displays the information contained in the file's section headers, if it
has any.
+@item -g
+@itemx --section-groups
+@cindex ELF section group information
+Displays the information contained in the file's section groups, if it
+has any.
+
+@item -N
+@itemx --full-section-name
+@cindex ELF section name information
+Displays the full section name for @option{-S}.
+
@item -s
@itemx --symbols
@itemx --syms
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2005-04-01 11:28 ` Nick Clifton
2005-04-01 14:45 ` H. J. Lu
@ 2005-04-01 14:49 ` H. J. Lu
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From: H. J. Lu @ 2005-04-01 14:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Nick Clifton; +Cc: binutils
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 12:25:46PM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
>
> By the way, just being picky, but shouldn't a new switch like this be
> documented in binutils/doc/binutils.texi and mentioned in
> binutils/NEWS... ? :-)
>
Here is a patch for 2.16.
H.J.
----
2005-04-01 H.J. Lu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
* NEWS: Mention new readelf option, "-N/--full-section-name".
* doc/binutils.texi: Document new readelf option,
"-g/--section-groups".
Index: NEWS
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/binutils/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.48
diff -u -p -r1.48 NEWS
--- NEWS 19 Jan 2005 23:43:00 -0000 1.48
+++ NEWS 1 Apr 2005 14:47:27 -0000
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
-*- text -*-
+* Add "-g/--section-groups" to readelf to display section group.
+
* objcopy recognizes two new options --strip-unneeded-symbol and
--strip-unneeded-symbols, namely for use together with the wildcard
matching the original --strip-symbol/--strip-symbols provided, but
Index: doc/binutils.texi
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/binutils/doc/binutils.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.68
diff -u -p -r1.68 binutils.texi
--- doc/binutils.texi 3 Mar 2005 11:46:13 -0000 1.68
+++ doc/binutils.texi 1 Apr 2005 14:47:30 -0000
@@ -3222,6 +3222,7 @@ readelf [@option{-a}|@option{--all}]
[@option{-h}|@option{--file-header}]
[@option{-l}|@option{--program-headers}|@option{--segments}]
[@option{-S}|@option{--section-headers}|@option{--sections}]
+ [@option{-g}|@option{--section-groups}]
[@option{-e}|@option{--headers}]
[@option{-s}|@option{--syms}|@option{--symbols}]
[@option{-n}|@option{--notes}]
@@ -3292,6 +3293,12 @@ has any.
Displays the information contained in the file's section headers, if it
has any.
+@item -g
+@itemx --section-groups
+@cindex ELF section group information
+Displays the information contained in the file's section groups, if it
+has any.
+
@item -s
@itemx --symbols
@itemx --syms
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