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authorMichael J. Spencer <bigcheesegs@gmail.com>2013-02-05 20:27:22 +0000
committerMichael J. Spencer <bigcheesegs@gmail.com>2013-02-05 20:27:22 +0000
commitdd3aa9eab2b40ea1573a5482472bbb89e6f1038d (patch)
treefaa04cd3474d8479c71875dadeda249842a2f133
parent39b5f12dd68430c4794b1d24af0fd204c82bc12f (diff)
[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
-rw-r--r--tools/llvm-objdump/llvm-objdump.cpp3
-rw-r--r--tools/llvm-readobj/llvm-readobj.cpp11
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/tools/llvm-objdump/llvm-objdump.cpp b/tools/llvm-objdump/llvm-objdump.cpp
index 24b586cdf1..95f7690ce5 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 d22ecd1b04..2edb660cf9 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.
//
//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//