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Subject: Re: Readelf: --wide as default if output is redirected
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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.

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H.J.