[Bug binutils/27672] Fix quirky size output in readelf symbol tables

[nick.lott at gmail dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27672

--- Comment #3 from Nick Lott <nick.lott at gmail dot com> ---
Hi Nick,
Thanks for responding so quickly.

(In reply to Nick Clifton from comment #1) 
> Of course there are times when this is not true, so it seems to me that the
> best solution would be to allow the user to choose.  How about creating (yet
> another) new command line option --sym-base=[0|8|10|16]' where 0 would mean
> to continue with the current mixed-base output ?  (The 0 value is necessary
> because there may be users of readelf that rely upon the behaviour).  It
> should apply to all types of symbol, not just dynamic.  What do you think ?
> 
> Cheers
>   Nick

Sounds like a pretty good compromise, I wouldn't want to touch the default
behaviour after 17 years. 

I've attached a patch which does what I think you've described.

It looks like the 'print_dynamic_symbol()' function is actually used to print
all symbol table entries, so I think I've covered all types, but I didn't test
extensively.

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