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| author | Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com> | 2015-02-13 17:04:42 +0000 |
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| committer | Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com> | 2015-02-28 21:25:51 +0000 |
| commit | acf1419f9c52d06ee70169b85c5f8980c7359f8f (patch) | |
| tree | d8a193b0f2a2411aa63f1cf4a4284c33368cb5df /binutils/NEWS | |
| parent | b7236fbee40060bcf5e90740a5c5706317749f91 (diff) | |
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objcopy: Add --update-section option.
New option for objcopy --update-section allows the contents of a section
to be updated while maintaining the section flags, and, for ELF files,
the section to segment mapping.
New test uses --dump-section and --update-section to check that a
section can be made larger and smaller with an update.
binutils/ChangeLog:
* objcopy.c (update_sections): New list.
(command_line_switch): Add OPTION_UPDATE_SECTION.
(copy_options): Add update-section.
(copy_usage): Document new option.
(is_update_section): New function.
(is_strip_section_1): Add check for attempt to update and remove
the same section.
(copy_object): Update size and content of requested sections.
(skip_section): Don't copy for updated sections.
(copy_main): Handle --update-section.
* doc/binutils.texi (objcopy): Add description of --update-section
option.
* NEWS: Mention --update-section option.
binutils/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* binutils-all/update-1.s: New file.
* binutils-all/update-2.s: New file.
* binutils-all/update-3.s: New file.
* binutils-all/update-4.s: New file.
* binutils-all/update-section.exp: New file.
Diffstat (limited to 'binutils/NEWS')
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/binutils/NEWS b/binutils/NEWS index 32b95ae..4158638 100644 --- a/binutils/NEWS +++ b/binutils/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ -*- text -*- +* Add --update-section option to objcopy. + Changes in 2.25: * Add --data option to strings to only print strings in loadable, initialized |