readelf truncates symbol names in relocation sections

Jakub Jelinek jakub@redhat.com
Tue Dec 18 07:25:00 GMT 2001
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 03:07:42PM +0000, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Julian,
> 
> > readelf (binutils-2.11.90.0.31) truncates symbol names in relocation
> > sections to 25 characters. This makes the output quite useless.
> 
> Actually this is deliberate.  It is intended to help make readelf's
> output more readable.
> 
> > I have appended a patch that fixes this problem.
> 
> Sorry this patch is not acceptable as is.  The old behaviour needs to
> be retained somhow.  Please consider either creating a new command
> line switch to enable the display of full length symbol names, or else
> attaching the ability to the already existing --wide switch.

I think it should be enabled by --wide.

	Jakub



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