[llvm-dev] RFC: Two llvm-readobj behaviour queries

[James Henderson via llvm-dev]

Hi all,

I just was discussing a couple of features in llvm-readobj and whether we
should change them slightly:

1) llvm-readobj --all currently matches GNU readelf's --all switch in that
it is equivalent to specifying a bundle of different options (including
--file-headers, --program-headers, --symbols, --version-info etc). However,
--all does not actually specify "all" dump types. For example, it doesn't
dump ELF section groups or the addrsig section (--elf-section-groups and
--addrsig respectively). I'd propose that it should dump all relevant
dumping information. Ideally, I'd suggest this difference for both
llvm-readobj and llvm-readelf, but I can understand nervousness in the
additional dumps that this would produce in llvm-readelf versus GNU readelf.

2) llvm-readobj --notes prints the SHT_NOTE sections unless the ELF type is
ET_CORE, in which case it prints the contents of the PT_NOTE segments and
NOT the SHT_NOTE sections. It seems to me like there's no good reason to
not try both for all file formats. For example, it's perfectly reasonable
to have PT_NOTE segments in an ET_EXEC or ET_DYN object file. What would
people think about removing this distinction? In this case, I'd propose
printing all PT_NOTE segments and all SHT_NOTE sections not in PT_NOTE
segments. In all likelihood, this would produce no different behaviour to
the old behaviour.

Thoughts?

James
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