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authorNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2017-10-31 13:48:03 +0000
committerNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2017-10-31 13:48:03 +0000
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Remind users to use the --use-dynamic command line option to dump dynamic relocations.
* readelf.c (process_relocs): Tell users if no static relocs were found, but if they had added --use-dynamic to the command line then relocs would have been displayed.
-rw-r--r--binutils/ChangeLog6
-rw-r--r--binutils/readelf.c16
2 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/binutils/ChangeLog b/binutils/ChangeLog
index d0cd3c7..951807f 100644
--- a/binutils/ChangeLog
+++ b/binutils/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2017-10-31 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+ * readelf.c (process_relocs): Tell users if no static relocs were
+ found, but if they had added --use-dynamic to the command line
+ then relocs would have been displayed.
+
2017-10-28 Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
PR 22361
diff --git a/binutils/readelf.c b/binutils/readelf.c
index 58c28db..f74d484 100644
--- a/binutils/readelf.c
+++ b/binutils/readelf.c
@@ -7150,7 +7150,21 @@ process_relocs (FILE * file)
}
if (! found)
- printf (_("\nThere are no relocations in this file.\n"));
+ {
+ /* Users sometimes forget the -D option, so try to be helpful. */
+ for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE (dynamic_relocations); i++)
+ {
+ if (dynamic_info [dynamic_relocations [i].size])
+ {
+ printf (_("\nThere are no static relocations in this file."));
+ printf (_("\nTo see the dynamic relocations add --use-dynamic to the command line.\n"));
+
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+ if (i == ARRAY_SIZE (dynamic_relocations))
+ printf (_("\nThere are no relocations in this file.\n"));
+ }
}
return TRUE;