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| author | Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com> | 1996-01-29 22:39:21 +0000 |
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| committer | Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com> | 1996-01-29 22:39:21 +0000 |
| commit | 5da470b2bb32ad73eeef6cf9fb2b3bc8b12482ee (patch) | |
| tree | 7be96a61c6a6c4d420db97ebf7b23ade677ee52d /binutils/binutils.texi | |
| parent | 3e78d072415b4f1f916fc09afdfd27fb16a9804a (diff) | |
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Based on patches from H J Lu <hjl@zoom.com>:
* objcopy.c (remove_leading_char): New static variable.
(OPTION_REMOVE_LEADING_CHAR): Define.
(copy_usage): Mention --remove-leading-char.
(filter_symbols): If remove_leading_char, and the first character
of a global symbol matches the symbol leading char of the BFD,
remove the first character.
(copy_object): Filter the symbols if remove_leading_char is set.
(copy_main): Handle --remove-leading-char.
* binutils.texi, objcopy.1: Document --remove-leading-char.
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/binutils/binutils.texi b/binutils/binutils.texi index d4dae57..0d055bf 100644 --- a/binutils/binutils.texi +++ b/binutils/binutils.texi @@ -807,6 +807,7 @@ objcopy [ -F @var{bfdname} | --target=@var{bfdname} ] [ --adjust-warnings ] [ --no-adjust-warnings ] [ --set-section-flags=@var{section}=@var{flags} ] [ --add-section=@var{sectionname}=@var{filename} ] + [ --remove-leading-char ] [ -v | --verbose ] [ -V | --version ] [ --help ] @var{infile} [@var{outfile}] @end smallexample @@ -976,6 +977,14 @@ contents of the new section are taken from the file @var{filename}. The size of the section will be the size of the file. This option only works on file formats which can support sections with arbitrary names. +@item --remove-leading-char +If the first character of a global symbol is a special symbol leading +character used by the object file format, remove the character. The +most common symbol leading character is underscore. This option will +remove a leading underscore from all global symbols. This can be useful +if you want to link together objects of different file formats with +different conventions for symbol names. + @item -V @itemx --version Show the version number of @code{objcopy}. |