Bug 219245

Summary:	nm(1) does not document 'r' or lowercase/uppercase convention
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	sgk
Component:	misc	Assignee:	Ed Maste <emaste>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Many People	CC:	emaste
Priority:	---	Flags:	emaste: mfc-stable11+ emaste: mfc-stable10- emaste: mfc-stable9-
Version:	CURRENT
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description sgk 2017-05-12 22:18:21 UTC

Comment 1 sgk 2017-05-12 22:22:06 UTC

Compiled libm.  Did 'nm catrig.o'.  Found the following:

00000008 r pio2_lo
00000000 r tiny

What does 'r' mean?  nm(1) lacks a description.

A response of freebsd-hacker pointed to the GNU tools nm.1,
but FreeBSD-current uses Elftoolchain's nm.1.

In a second response on freebsd-hackers, I was informed that
a convention exists between uppercase and lowercase.  nm.1
from Elftoolchain does not contain a description of this
convention.

Comment 2 commit-hook freebsd_committer

2017-05-22 01:10:26 UTC

A commit references this bug:

Author: emaste
Date: Mon May 22 01:10:12 UTC 2017
New revision: 318603
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/318603

Log:
  nm: document 'r' symbol type

  PR:		219245
  MFC after:	3 days
  Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation

Changes:
  head/contrib/elftoolchain/nm/nm.1

Comment 3 commit-hook freebsd_committer

2017-05-25 00:34:09 UTC

A commit references this bug:

Author: emaste
Date: Thu May 25 00:34:01 UTC 2017
New revision: 318841
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/318841

Log:
  MFC r318603: nm: document 'r' symbol type

  PR:		219245
  Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation

Changes:
_U  stable/11/
  stable/11/contrib/elftoolchain/nm/nm.1