From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 8 10:58:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA14832 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 10:58:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA14827 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 10:58:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr07.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA13644; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 10:58:17 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr07.primenet.com(206.165.6.207) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd013595; Tue Sep 8 10:58:10 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA01148; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 10:58:02 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199809081758.KAA01148@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: nm To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 17:58:02 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Chuck Robey" at Sep 6, 98 12:01:18 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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? That's dumb. Why would it use a flag instead of reading the magic number off the file? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message