From dd3aa9eab2b40ea1573a5482472bbb89e6f1038d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Michael J. Spencer" Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 20:27:22 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] [objdump,readobj] Document the purpose and goals of each tool. git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@174439 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8 --- tools/llvm-objdump/llvm-objdump.cpp | 3 +++ tools/llvm-readobj/llvm-readobj.cpp | 11 +++++++---- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/llvm-objdump/llvm-objdump.cpp b/tools/llvm-objdump/llvm-objdump.cpp index 24b586cdf133..95f7690ce5ac 100644 --- a/tools/llvm-objdump/llvm-objdump.cpp +++ b/tools/llvm-objdump/llvm-objdump.cpp @@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ // dumps out a plethora of information about an object file depending on the // flags. // +// The flags and output of this program should be near identical to those of +// binutils objdump. +// //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===// #include "llvm-objdump.h" diff --git a/tools/llvm-readobj/llvm-readobj.cpp b/tools/llvm-readobj/llvm-readobj.cpp index d22ecd1b04fe..2edb660cf922 100644 --- a/tools/llvm-readobj/llvm-readobj.cpp +++ b/tools/llvm-readobj/llvm-readobj.cpp @@ -7,12 +7,15 @@ // //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===// // -// This program is a utility that works like traditional Unix "readelf", -// except that it can handle any type of object file recognized by lib/Object. +// This is a tool similar to readelf, except it works on multiple object file +// formats. The main purpose of this tool is to provide detailed output suitable +// for FileCheck. // -// It makes use of the generic ObjectFile interface. +// Flags should be similar to readelf where supported, but the output format +// does not need to be identical. The point is to not make users learn yet +// another set of flags. // -// Caution: This utility is new, experimental, unsupported, and incomplete. +// Output should be specialized for each format where appropriate. // //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//