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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:52:19 +0100
From: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] compact print_symbol() output
Cc: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>, ak@suse.de,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>,
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On 1/17/06, Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> wrote:
> Akinobu Mita (on Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:15:55 +0900) wrote:
> >- remove symbolsize field
> >- change offset format from hexadecimal to decimal
>
> That is silly.  Almost every binutils tool prints offsets in hex,
> including objdump and gdb.  Printing the trace offset in decimal just
> makes more work for users to convert back to decimal to match up with
> all the other tools.
>
Agreed.
Also, hex output is shorter and often more natural for this type of data.

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