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Date:      Wed, 02 Sep 1998 08:47:13 -0700
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        joelh@gnu.org
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ELF binaries size 
Message-ID:  <199809021547.IAA22642@austin.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Sep 1998 23:51:27 CDT." <199809020451.XAA04004@detlev.UUCP> 

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> Say, while I was looking at this, I noticed something... Didn't
> we used to have an a.out-friendly objdump?  I'm running a 26Aug
> current.  (I'm willing to wait a few days for the ELF world, having
> no ELF-critical projects today.)  The only objdump is directly in
> /usr/libexec/elf, and it won't read a.out (natch).  What happened to
> the old objdump?

We gave up on supporting a.out in binutils, because it was causing
all kinds of problems.

Use "ldd -v" for a.out object files, if you want something like
objdump.

John
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   John Polstra                                       jdp@polstra.com
   John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                Seattle, Washington USA
   "Self-knowledge is always bad news."                 -- John Barth

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