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Re: [Commit]: Add debuglink support to objdump and readelf

From: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:40:31 +0000
Subject: Re: [Commit]: Add debuglink support to objdump and readelf
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References: <877eurvksg.fsf@redhat.com> <alpine.DEB.2.20.1711161851190.19554@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>

Hi Joseph,

> This patch causes problems for glibc linknamespace tests because of how it 
> changes the output format of readelf on .a files.
> 
> Previously, "readelf -W -s libc.a" would produce output starting e.g.:
> 
> File: /scratch/jmyers/glibc/many8/build/glibcs/x86_64-linux-gnu/glibc/libc.a(init-first.o)
> 
> Symbol table '.symtab' contains 30 entries:
> 
> and continuing with symbol information for each object in that .a file.  
> After this commit, instead it starts:
> 
> File: /scratch/jmyers/glibc/many8/build/glibcs/x86_64-linux-gnu/glibc/libc.a

Oops - sorry about that.  It must be a snafu in my update to the file name printing code.
I will investigate and try to get a fix for it today.

Cheers
  Nick

References:
- [Commit]: Add debuglink support to objdump and readelf
  - From: Nick Clifton
- Re: [Commit]: Add debuglink support to objdump and readelf
  - From: Joseph Myers

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