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| author | Ronald Hoogenbllon <rhoogenboom@irdeto.com> | 2015-10-21 15:16:35 +0100 |
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| committer | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2015-10-21 15:16:35 +0100 |
| commit | 2b35fb28f397a26c0da03f7579116d28af2af824 (patch) | |
| tree | 7dc8a9042b84587fa9c317fbf1feda1caf6a1f97 /binutils/NEWS | |
| parent | 1283d92f0e4704bb31b1e163b9c88216756ef62c (diff) | |
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Add ability for objcopy to insert new symbols into a binary.
PR binutils/19104
binutils * objcopy.c (command_line_switch): Add OPTION_ADD_SYMBOL.
(copy_options): Add add-symbol.
(copy_usage): Likewise.
(parse_symflags): New function.
(need_sym_before): New function.
(create_new_symbol): New function.
(filter_symbols): Add code to insert new symbols.
(copy_main): Process OPTION_ADD_SYMBOL.
* doc/binutils.texi: Document new feature.
* NEWS: Add note about the new feature.
tests * binutils-all/add-symbol.d: New test.
* binutils-all/objcopy.exp: Run the new test.
Diffstat (limited to 'binutils/NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | binutils/NEWS | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/binutils/NEWS b/binutils/NEWS index fb36cf1..b0508f8 100644 --- a/binutils/NEWS +++ b/binutils/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,8 @@ -*- text -*- +* Add option to objcopy to insert new symbols into a file: + --add-symbol <name>=[<section>:]<value>[,<flags>] + * Add support for the ARC EM/HS, and ARC600/700 architectures. * Extend objcopy --compress-debug-sections option to support |