Re: objdump -T exits with 0 even when no symbol table

[Alan Modra]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 12:27:54PM +0100, Skyscraper System Administrator wrote:
> If it doesn't interfere with other behaviour, it
> would be nice if 'objdump -T foo' would exit with
> a non-zero value when foo contains no symbol table.

I think this would be inappropriate.  Non-zero values usually indicate
an error of some sort, unless the program being run is a predicate, like
"test".

You can easily write a little shell script wrapper to return a non-zero
status if objdump prints "no symbols".

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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre