On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 10:46:46AM -0400, Ed Maste wrote: > Work is in progress to migrate fully to modern and permissively > licensed components for the tool chain. This includes moving away from > the three obsolete binutils components that are still in the base > system (as, ld, objdump). objdump is a tool to report information > about binary objects (such as headers, symbols, etc.), is not required > as a build tool, and in any case many uses of objdump are better > served by readelf. > > For FreeBSD 12 I intend to remove GNU objdump 2.17.50. PR 229046[1] is > open to track tasks related to its removal, and users who need GNU > objdump can install an up-to-date version from the ports tree or the > binutils package. > > That said, llvm includes a somewhat equivalent llvm-objdump, and it is > built by default in FreeBSD now. If llvm-objdump's command line option > support and output format is "close enough" to GNU objdump for most > users we may decide to install it as /usr/bin/objdump. Therefore, I > would like to ask users of GNU objdump in FreeBSD to give llvm-objdump > a try. Please let me know if it works for your uses, or describe > deficiencies that you found. I think we've changed our flag us in CheriBSD to accommodate llvm-objdump so at least a few months ago flag compatibility was poor. The output is different, but fine for my uses (producing human readable assembly output). -- Brooks
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