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...llvm-objcopy and llvm-objdump is to provide an alternative to the GNU equivalent, and as such, these tools have been developed to be command-line compatible. One tool where this hasn’t been the case up to now is llvm-readobj (aka llvm-readelf). There was some discussion in https://reviews.llvm.org/D33872 about the purpose of llvm-readobj, so I’d like to ask the community's opinion. What is the purpose of llvm-readobj? Is it purely intended as an aid to testing? Should it be aiming to be GNU compatible, like most of the rest of the LLVM tools? The main issue I discovered with GNU compatibility...

...t objdump accepts "-df" as a merged form of "-d > -f" i.e. "--dissassemble --file-headers". So we may want to consider this > as a meta-discussion for other tools like llvm-objdump. > > >> >> There was some discussion in https://reviews.llvm.org/D33872 about the >> purpose of llvm-readobj, so I’d like to ask the community's opinion. What >> is the purpose of llvm-readobj? Is it purely intended as an aid to testing? >> Should it be aiming to be GNU compatible, like most of the rest of the LLVM >> tools? >> > Fr...