Re: [PATCH 3/4] compact print_symbol() output

[Jesper Juhl]

On 1/17/06, Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Akinobu Mita (on Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:15:55 +0900) wrote:
> >- remove symbolsize field
> >- change offset format from hexadecimal to decimal
>
> That is silly.  Almost every binutils tool prints offsets in hex,
> including objdump and gdb.  Printing the trace offset in decimal just
> makes more work for users to convert back to decimal to match up with
> all the other tools.
>
Agreed.
Also, hex output is shorter and often more natural for this type of data.

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