[RFC] extending bfd_print_private_bfd_data
Nick Clifton
nickc@redhat.com
Thu Nov 5 15:43:00 GMT 2009
Hi Tristan,
> some formats (pe, coff, mach-o) may dump a lot of information with
> 'objdump -p'. This is somewhat boring
> if you need only to dump a specific part of that (for example only the
> characteristics of a PE file).
Is it really that hard to use grep or cut to extract the information
that you want ?
I would be hesitant about adding new code to the BFD library when it is
not really needed.
Alternatively, is there a need for a new tool, say 'coffdump' to handle
the special needs of the COFF/PE format ?
Cheers
Nick
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