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Nick Alcock 6364617120 binutils, objdump: Add --ctf-parent-section This lets you examine CTF where the parent and child dicts are in entirely different sections, rather than in a CTF archive with members with different names. The linker doesn't emit ELF objects structured like this, but some third-party linkers may; it's also useful for objcopy-constructed files in some cases. (This is what the objdump --ctf-parent option used to do before commit `80b56fad5c` in 2021. The new semantics of that option are much more useful, but that doesn't mean the old ones are never useful at all, so let's bring them back.) (I was specifically driven to add this by DTrace's obscure "ctypes" and "dtypes" options, which dump its internal, dynamically-generated dicts out to files for debugging purposes: there are two, one the parent of the other. Since they're in two separate files rather than a CTF archive and we have no tools that paste files together into archives, objdump wouldn't show them -- and even pasting them together into an ELF executable with objcopy didn't help, since objdump had no options that could be used to look in specific sections for the parent dict. With --ctf-parent-section, this sort of obscure use case becomes possible again. You'll never need it for the output of the normal linker.) binutils/ * doc/ctf.options.texi: Add --ctf-parent-section=. * objdump.c (dump_ctf): Implement it. (dump_bfd): Likewise. (main): Likewise.		3 years ago
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binutils.texi	Add -j/--display-section option to readelf.	2 years ago
ctf.options.texi	binutils, objdump: Add --ctf-parent-section	2 years ago
debug.options.texi	Add option to objdump/readelf to disable access to debuginfod servers.	4 years ago
fdl.texi	Change documentation license to FDL v1.3	18 years ago
local.mk	Update year range in copyright notice of binutils files	2 years ago
sframe.options.texi	readelf/objdump: support for SFrame section	3 years ago