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Re: [PATCH] nm.c/objdump.c demangle short option bug fix.


On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 10:46:49AM +0300, Elias Athanasopoulos wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 10:13:14AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 07:39:06PM +0300, Elias Athanasopoulos wrote:
> 
> > > binutils/nm.c (main.c):
> > > 
> > > 	case 'C': 
> > 
> > Showing this code snippet doesn't prove anything.  case 'C' also
> > handles --demangle, which does take an optional arg.
> 
> Aren't '-C' and '--demangle' equivelant

No.

> as, for example, '-f' and
> '--format' are? How can someone specify the demnagle style using
> '-C?'

You can't.

> Or what's the purpose of the '-C' option. If it doesn't take
> an 'optional' arg then the listed usage is wrong, because it is exactly 
> the same with the '-t' and '-f' cases (both of them do take
> an option).

No, -t and -f are different in that they _require_ an arg.

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre


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