[Bug binutils/26028] Readelf truncates symbol names - which is both undocumented, and unnecessary

[nickc at redhat dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26028

--- Comment #6 from Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to Fangrui Song from comment #5)

> About the new -T/--silent-truncation option, I wonder whether the truncation
> is important enough that deserves a short option... When a truncated symbol
> name, it almost certainly means the user has to add --wide and rerun readelf
> if they want to base their decisions on the symbol name (e.g. objdump -d ...
> | grep $symbol_name_extracted_from_readelf). I don't know whether a short
> option -T will help them..

Eh - there are enough unused single letters that having a short version of the
--silent-truncation option should not cause any grief.  The option itself is
certainly useful - for example in the linker and binutils testsuites - and I am
sure that there are some people who will want to use it for their own
scripts/build systems.

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