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...happy holidays to you, too!

Just had a try with the test binaries `tests/arm/libelf_diff_test2_debug_old.a` and `tests/arm/libelf_diff_test2_debug_new.a` from the elf_diff repo. For these differences are correctly reported in the stats-textfile. So I really need your files...

Regarding the question whether elf_diff is smart with assembly and relocations. No, it's not. It completely relies on binutils and only compares (mangled) symbol names, symbol sizes and assembly code...

@fkerle , thanks for the detailed information. Yes, assembly differences are colsidered "significant". I will try to find out what is going wrong when using your binaries...

@fkerle, sorry I was busy last week so it took me a while to come back to this. I merged a fix for the reported problem to master that now...

I remeber having considered doing what you are suggesting when initially developing the tool. However, at some point I decided against it as I wanted the number of external tools...

I'm sorry, for telling what's the exact difference between the binaries and if there's something wrong with elfdiff, I would need the source code and the exact command line args...

Could you please specify what you mean by "the original project"? It seems, you used the master branch of this repo. Could you please try the develop branch instead, which...

Good point. No, of course he is not wrong, when it comes to the master branch. I am still curious about the original project because there are myriads of forks...

This is the CMake file that is responsible for finding libraries: https://github.com/arduino-cmake/arduino-cmake/blob/develop/cmake/Platform/Core/LibraryFinder.cmake You could add some debug statements `message("...")` to find out where/why Arduino-CMake picks up the meta folder. You...