> Trying to solve objcopy's ugliness

Hey, I wrote objcopy and objdump as debugging tools for developing bfd targets when I was designing bfd. Neither was (originally) intended as a production tool. OK I still use them myself, and I haven’t looked at the bfd source code in almost 30 years.

I forget who came up with the tool chain target names, which I think was your real complaint, though I remember when. Perhaps Ian Taylor (later author of gold, which was notable for, among other things, not using bfd).

Objdump should have a feature to generate assembly or c code for an arbitrary blob (with correct byte swap, if needed, of course).