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From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: Katharina Bogad <katharina@bogad.at>
Cc: "binutils@sourceware.org" <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Readelf: --wide as default if output is redirected
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 11:01:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMe9rOrG4q-yqY3vYT8=dj38cHOY9WRfgRyqTi=vjkcDyTwJWA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C48785C9-6DCC-4C19-8FC7-1A3DD3A3F47C@bogad.at>

On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 9:06 AM Katharina Bogad via Binutils
<binutils@sourceware.org> wrote:
>
> Hi list,
>
> as I spent the last hour or so trying to figure out why some function names
> in the output of readelf -r cannot be found and then realizing that readelf has
> silently truncated them, I was wondering if it was possible to make --wide the
> default if the output is redirected (as I was reading it in a pager anyways).
>
> Now, as this is a pure quality of life improvement, I wanted to speak to someone
> before submitting a patch. I know that changing any API, especially in a tool
> as widely used like binutils is a huge deal, but I want to discuss this anyways.
>

FWIW, I always pass --wide to readelf.

-- 
H.J.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-16 18:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-16 16:06 Katharina Bogad
2020-09-16 18:01 ` H.J. Lu [this message]
2020-09-17  9:55 ` Nick Clifton
2020-09-17 10:36   ` Katharina Bogad
2020-09-17 15:37     ` Nick Clifton
2020-09-17 15:59     ` Fangrui Song
2020-09-18 13:57       ` Mark Wielaard

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