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