Bug#1085257: diffoscope: Compare ar(1) archives

[Chris Lamb]

Hello Alejandro,

> It would be nice to be able to compare ar(1) archives.

It should already do!

  $ diffoscope tests/data/test1.a tests/data/test2.a

  --- tests/data/test1.a
  +++ tests/data/test2.a
  ├── file list
  │ @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
  │ -----------   0        0        0       10 2015-06-24 12:14:19.000000 /
  │ --rw-r--r--   0     1000     1000     1216 2015-06-24 12:13:47.000000 test.o
  │ +----------   0        0        0       10 2015-06-24 12:14:29.000000 /
  │ +-rw-r--r--   0     1000     1000     1216 2015-06-24 12:14:27.000000 test.o
  ├── test.o
  │ ├── objdump --line-numbers --disassemble --demangle --reloc --no-show-raw-insn --section=.text {}
  │ │ @@ -3,10 +3,10 @@
  │ │  
  │ │  Disassembly of section .text:
  │ │  
  │ │  0000000000000000 <f>:
  │ │  f():
  │ │  	push   %rbp
  │ │  	mov    %rsp,%rbp
  │ │ -	mov    $0x2a,%eax
  │ │ +	mov    $0xffffffff,%eax
  │ │  	pop    %rbp
  │ │  	ret

Do you not get the same thing? You may need to install the binutils
package.


Regards,

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