Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 16:18:00 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@bsd.hu> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: interesting: problem with nm? Message-ID: <20020627211759.GA64350@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20020627194240.GB688@fonix.adamsfamily.xx> References: <200206271445.g5REjCY1015495@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <200206271728.g5RHS0Yl041759@apollo.backplane.com> <20020627180520.GC561@unixpages.org> <20020627182346.GA688@fonix.adamsfamily.xx> <20020627121338.A20455@FreeBSD.ORG> <20020627194240.GB688@fonix.adamsfamily.xx>
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In the last episode (Jun 27), Szilveszter Adam said: > On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 12:13:39PM -0700, Juli Mallett wrote: > > If no file is specified for nm to operate on it operates on a.out > > by default like most other programs that deal with binaries. > > > > If a.out does not exist, then you will indeed see that. > > Thanks for the clarification, I expected it to print a version string > (because I was only interested in seeing that it does not die after > the pmap fix) but had to find out from the man page, that nm(1) uses > -V for that, while all other members of the binutils family opt for > -v. Oh well... Consistency in software design rocks. Since it's a gnu app, --version works also. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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