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On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Stan Shebs wrote:
While it seems like an obvious thing to hack up the dwarf dumping code so that it can be used in objdump for non-ELF, it makes me wonder why there is a separate readelf program in the first place. Is this just historical, or is there a fundamental reason why binutils has two file dumpers?
While Daniel answered the question IMHO perfectly, I can't help but wonder where this should be documented; it comes up now and then. (I assume it isn't documented, or Stan would know.) Stan, where would/did you look for the answer to this question (documentation-wise)?
Top of readelf.c seems like one obvious place. The user manual ought to say something too, otherwise how does the user know which to prefer for what purpose? All I saw was a rather coy xref from objdump -g to readelf -w.
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