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Authored by emaste on Jan 12 2018, 3:16 AM.
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The in-tree binutils is old and will not be updated. Other tools are migrating to copyfree alternatives but there is not yet a direct replacement for objdump. I plan to remove it as it is not used by the build, and updated and maintained versions are available from ports and packages.

See also D7338

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This revision was not accepted when it landed; it landed in state Needs Review.Jun 15 2018, 5:04 PM
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.

Committed to rendered man page in rS335219.