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readelf supports debugging info formats that objdump doesn't...
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- To: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 09 Apr 2003 01:37:17 -0300
- Subject: readelf supports debugging info formats that objdump doesn't...
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
... so let's suggest users to give it a try. People might assume
that, since objdump and readelf are in the same package, they would
support the same formats, but... Ok to install?
Index: binutils/ChangeLog
from Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
* doc/binutils.texi (objdump) [--debugging]: Suggest readelf -w
for debugging information types not supported by objdump.
Index: binutils/doc/binutils.texi
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RCS file: /cvs/src/src/binutils/doc/binutils.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.35
diff -u -p -r1.35 binutils.texi
--- binutils/doc/binutils.texi 5 Apr 2003 08:21:47 -0000 1.35
+++ binutils/doc/binutils.texi 9 Apr 2003 04:35:39 -0000
@@ -1479,6 +1479,8 @@ for more information on demangling.
Display debugging information. This attempts to parse debugging
information stored in the file and print it out using a C like syntax.
Only certain types of debugging information have been implemented.
+Some other types are supported by @command{readelf -w}.
+ at xref{readelf} dot
@item -d
@itemx --disassemble
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