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Re: readelf -S and long section name
Hi Guys,
> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
>> > 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.
Ok - so maybe this behaviour should only be triggered with --wide ?
In which case maybe a more explanatory alias for --wide is needed,
something like --no-clip-output ?
Cheers
Nick