Re: PATCH: Add archive support to ELF

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at redhat dot com>]

> > Because the whole point of readelf is that it doesn't use the BFD
> > library.  In a very real sense, the entire readelf program is a
> > reinvention of the wheel.
>
>
> I don't think so. readelf provides much more and detailed ELF specific
> information than objdump or nm.
>
> What harm will readelf using libbfd do? Is someone planning to remove
> libbfd one day and still want to keep readelf.

Something to note here is that GDB would like access to more detailed 
display functions found in readelf.  In particular the dwarf2 print 
code.  Perhaps what's needed is a library that can print detailed 
internals and then have both readelf and objdump use it.

Andrew