On Thu, 2015-10-22 at 15:08 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > + N_("Show compression information for compressed sections (when used
> > with -S). Decompress section before dumping data (when used with -p or
> > -x)"), 0 },
> > { NULL, 0, NULL, 0, NULL, 0 }
>
> I'd make this a single sentence with a semicolon.
Changed it to:
-z, --decompress Show compression information for compressed
sections (when used with -S); decompress section
before dumping data (when used with -p or -x)
> Otherwise fine assuming that binutils readelf -z has the same semantics.
Yes, binutils readelf -z has the same semantics for dumping uncompressed
sections. For section details binutils readelf only shows information
for SHF_COMPRESSED sections, not for gnu style compressed sections. But
I think showing it for both makes more sense.
> It might be nice to make the section introduction more verbose, e.g.
> "... contains %u bytes (%u bytes uncompressed) ..." rather than just
> "... contains %u bytes [%u] ..."
Also changed.
The (rebased) patch can be found on mjw/compress branch in git.
I will now work on adding an elf-[de]compress utility and update the
interfaces based on the solaris feedback.
Thanks,
Mark
