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Subject: Re: Readelf: --wide as default if output is redirected
From: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
To: Fangrui Song <i@maskray.me>, Katharina Bogad <katharina@bogad.at>
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Hi,

On Thu, 2020-09-17 at 08:59 -0700, Fangrui Song wrote:
> Yeah, I created an alias 're' for 'readelf -W'. Sometimes I need to
> provide a command for others and omitting -W has always caused me
> trouble.
>=20
> To provide a data point, llvm-readelf supports only the wide format
> and ignores --wide. It turns out that most projects don't need a
> change.

Same for eu-readelf:

  -W, --wide        Ignored for compatibility (lines always wide)

Cheers,

Mark