Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 12:01:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: nm Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9809061153520.21019-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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I notice that nm is one of those utils that has, like ld, completely different versions for aout and for elf. I just tried to use nm on an aout lib (choke, hack!) As a suggestion, does it seem reasonable to have a wrapper for nm such that it read ONLY the -elf or -aout flag, stripped it off, and then dispatched either the nm-elf or nm-aout tool? If there was neither flag in existence, it could look for OBJFORMAT in the environment, and if that failed, use /etc/objformat, else give an error message and die. This would allow both aout and elf installs of nm to coexist. For sake of speed, it could be a C program (it's pretty trivial code). Would that work? I mean, are there any drawbacks I haven't seen? I'm not certain I'm ready to suggest that approach for ld, yet, seeing as that would materially affect 'make world' speeds. This would probably be a candidate for variant symlinks, if we had them, wouldn't it? ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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