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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/libexec/rtld-elf debug.c rtld.1 rtld.c rtld.h
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On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Alexander Kabaev wrote:
> Just out of curiosity what does that buy you compared to objdump/readelf
> tools? Frankly I do not think this kind of logging output belongs to
> rtld and would like to see this patch backed out. It is also possible
> there are some advantages I am missing, in that case an explanation will
> be very much appreciated.

This allows you to see what relocations were performed.

No other tools in the tree provide this functionality.

Anyone working with the MD bits has probably used similar code at one
point or another.

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