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| author | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2006-09-05 08:22:27 +0000 |
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| committer | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2006-09-05 08:22:27 +0000 |
| commit | 91bb255c67ce378e25576a12e6b24929c45c92fc (patch) | |
| tree | 9e6bf98bdd502886db12dbfb86ad1f2db13d24a2 /binutils | |
| parent | a0d64f3a09dd00e54a3d0310d36e5e24084cefbd (diff) | |
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PR binutils/3166
* objcopy.c (is_strip_section): Do not treat group sections as debugging sections.
* doc/binutils.texi (--only-keep-debug): Document that this switch is only intended for use on fully linked files.
Diffstat (limited to 'binutils')
| -rw-r--r-- | binutils/ChangeLog | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | binutils/doc/binutils.texi | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | binutils/objcopy.c | 7 |
3 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/binutils/ChangeLog b/binutils/ChangeLog index 184f0b1..b36b875 100644 --- a/binutils/ChangeLog +++ b/binutils/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +2006-09-05 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> + + PR binutils/3166 + * objcopy.c (is_strip_section): Do not treat group sections as + debugging sections. + * doc/binutils.texi (--only-keep-debug): Document that this switch + is only intended for use on fully linked files. + 2006-09-01 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> PR binutils/3146 diff --git a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi index d74be80..e6d9ecd 100644 --- a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi +++ b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi @@ -1482,6 +1482,13 @@ i.e., the file pointed to by the @option{--add-gnu-debuglink} can be the full executable. It does not have to be a file created by the @option{--only-keep-debug} switch. +Note - this switch is only intended for use on fully linked files. It +does not make sense to use it on object files where the debugging +information may be incomplete. Besides the gnu_debuglink feature +currently only supports the presence of one filename containing +debugging information, not multiple filenames on a one-per-object-file +basis. + @item -V @itemx --version Show the version number of @command{objcopy}. @@ -2391,6 +2398,13 @@ ie the file pointed to by the @option{--add-gnu-debuglink} can be the full executable. It does not have to be a file created by the @option{--only-keep-debug} switch. +Note - this switch is only intended for use on fully linked files. It +does not make sense to use it on object files where the debugging +information may be incomplete. Besides the gnu_debuglink feature +currently only supports the presence of one filename containing +debugging information, not multiple filenames on a one-per-object-file +basis. + @item -V @itemx --version Show the version number for @command{strip}. diff --git a/binutils/objcopy.c b/binutils/objcopy.c index 0d56845..8db5ef0 100644 --- a/binutils/objcopy.c +++ b/binutils/objcopy.c @@ -815,6 +815,13 @@ is_strip_section (bfd *abfd ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, asection *sec) return FALSE; } + /* PR binutils/3166 + Group sections look like debugging sections but they are not. + (They have a non-zero size but they are not ALLOCated). */ + if ((bfd_get_section_flags (abfd, sec) & SEC_GROUP) != 0 + && strip_symbols == STRIP_NONDEBUG) + return TRUE; + return FALSE; } |