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authorAlex Brachet <alexbrachetmialot@gmail.com>2019-07-12 10:20:01 +0000
committerAlex Brachet <alexbrachetmialot@gmail.com>2019-07-12 10:20:01 +0000
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[tools] [llvm-nm] Default to reading from stdin not a.out
Summary: This moves away from defaulting to a.out and uses stdin only if stdin has a file redirected to it. This has been discussed on the llvm-dev mailing list [[ https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2019-July/133642.html | here ]]. Reviewers: jhenderson, rupprecht, MaskRay, chrisjackson Reviewed By: jhenderson, MaskRay Subscribers: llvm-commits Tags: #llvm Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D64290 llvm-svn: 365889
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@@ -13,9 +13,8 @@ DESCRIPTION
The :program:`llvm-nm` utility lists the names of symbols from LLVM bitcode
files, object files, and archives. Each symbol is listed along with some simple
-information about its provenance. If no filename is specified, *a.out* is used
-as the input. If *-* is used as a filename, :program:`llvm-nm` will read a file
-from its standard input stream.
+information about its provenance. If no filename is specified, or *-* is used as
+a filename, :program:`llvm-nm` will read a file from its standard input stream.
:program:`llvm-nm`'s default output format is the traditional BSD :program:`nm`
output format. Each such output record consists of an (optional) 8-digit
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