Function chooseExe

internal/binutils/binutils.go:194–204

chooseExe finds and returns path to preferred binary. names is a list of names to search on both Linux and OSX. osxNames is a list of names specific to OSX. names always has a higher priority than osxNames. The order of the name within each list decides its priority (e.g. the first name has a higher

(names, osxNames []string, paths []string)

// It returns a string with path to the binary and a boolean indicating if any
// acceptable binary was found.
func chooseExe(names, osxNames []string, paths []string) (string, bool) {
	if runtime.GOOS == "darwin" {
		names = append(names, osxNames...)
	}
	for _, name := range names {
		if binary, found := findExe(name, paths); found {
			return binary, true
		}
	}
	return "", false
}

// isLLVMObjdump accepts a string with path to an objdump binary,
// and returns a boolean indicating if the given binary is an LLVM