[Bug binutils/12634] New: improve objdump's way of showing non-executable sections

[sven.koehler at gmail dot com]

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12634

           Summary: improve objdump's way of showing non-executable
                    sections
           Product: binutils
           Version: 2.21
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: binutils
        AssignedTo: address@hidden
        ReportedBy: address@hidden


Hi,

as far as I can see, objdump currently has two ways of showing non-executable
section:

using -D, it shows labels, but it tries to disassemble the data
using -s, it shows non-executable section as one big BLOB of data

I'd like to suggest a third mode:
In this mode, binutils should behave almost like -D, that it objdump shows the
labels/symbols, prints the binary data, but instead of showing a disssembly of
the data, it should show some ASCII-like representation of the binary data
(very much like most hex-editors do it).

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