From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: Pete Dietl <petedietl@gmail.com>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Readelf section header printing alignment
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2023 18:59:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZYtoxmOvGjW6TpiZ@vapier> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACB-c0GfaStgy+7WFF-70qsGh8qbgzgVP3Jzdz_6ejwe5JiKww@mail.gmail.com>
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On 26 Dec 2023 15:01, Pete Dietl wrote:
> The section headers output from readelf with the '-W' option become ugly and
> unaligned when a section name is too long.
> Example:
>
> Section Headers:
> [Nr] Name Type Address Off Size
> ES Flg Lk Inf Al
> [ 0] NULL 0000000000000000 000000
> 000000 00 0 0 0
> [ 1] .text PROGBITS 0000000000000000 000040
> 00000f 00 AX 0 0 1
> [ 2] .data PROGBITS 0000000000000000 00004f
> 000000 00 WA 0 0 1
> [ 3] .bss NOBITS 0000000000000000 00004f
> 000000 00 WA 0 0 1
> [ 4] .comment PROGBITS 0000000000000000 00004f
> 00002c 01 MS 0 0 1
> [ 5] .note.GNU-stack PROGBITS 0000000000000000 00007b
> 000000 00 0 0 1
> [ 6] .note.gnu.property NOTE 0000000000000000 000080
> 000020 00 A 0 0 8
> [ 7] .eh_frame PROGBITS 0000000000000000 0000a0
> 000038 00 A 0 0 8
> [ 8] .rela.eh_frame RELA 0000000000000000 000148
> 000018 18 I 9 7 8
> [ 9] .symtab SYMTAB 0000000000000000 0000d8
> 000060 18 10 3 8
> [10] .strtab STRTAB 0000000000000000 000138
> 00000d 00 0 0 1
> [11] .shstrtab STRTAB 0000000000000000 000160
> 000067 00 0 0 1
>
> May I submit a patch to compute the amount of space between 'Name' and 'Type'
> from the longest of the section header names, or is this just a silly
> formatting detail that no one cares about? :)
i think all of the cols can get unaligned if the content is bigger than the
allocated space. i wish it would autoalign/fix itself, at least when using
the -W option.
-mike
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-12-26 23:01 Pete Dietl
2023-12-26 23:59 ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2024-01-05 15:12 ` Nick Clifton
2024-01-06 6:55 ` Fangrui Song
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