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Re: readelf -S and long section name
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 08:03:12AM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> > Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> writes:
>
> > On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 10:40:29AM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> >> The problem is one long section name, which is unusual in C++, will
> >> make a very large number of columns and make it hard to see the rest
> >> of output.
> >
> > Perhaps test for > n chars and if so, wrap after the section name,
> > like
> >
> > [11] .text PROGBITS 00015a80 015a80 0f9e34 00 AX 0 0 16
> > [12] some_really_big_section_name_probably_from_c++_name_mangling
> > PROGBITS 0010f8c0 10f8c0 00086a 00 AX 0 0 16
> >
> > With --wide, n probably should be increased too.
>
> I rather like this idea. HJ, Jakub - what do you think ?
As long as there's a mode in which it doesn't do this. The readelf -S
output is historically very easy to parse from the command line and I
have a whole bunch of very dumb shellscripts somewhere which do that.
Splitting the output inconsistently means you have to use a more
sophisticated parser than just grep.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer