Re: The "-W|--wide" option?

[Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>]

Hi Ian,

> > Essentially the purpose of -W is to prevent truncation, usually of
> > filenames or function names.  Tools that use the output from readelf
> > must decide if they want full or truncated names and invoke the tool
> > appropriately.
>
> I have to say that I find the truncation extremely annoying, and I would
> never ever under any circumstances want file names or function names or
> symbol names or section names to be truncated.  I always use --wide with
> readelf.

Fair enough.  Personally I find the truncated output helpful if I am not 
interested in the names, but I am interested in the presence or absence 
of particular types of information.

Cheers
  Nick