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| author | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2013-12-31 09:52:24 +0000 |
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| committer | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2013-12-31 09:52:24 +0000 |
| commit | bbad633bb88cf35a8865a07b80609b57d2f29bdd (patch) | |
| tree | 3593707e855b8dee8eceff6299805d66b814a7ee /binutils/doc | |
| parent | 402333465480bd9a4e87091757f4649ae8835eca (diff) | |
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* objcopy.c (dump_sections): New list.
(command_line_switch): Add OPTION_DUMP_SECTION.
(copy_options): Add dump-section.
(copy_usage): Document new option.
(copy_object): Dump requested sections.
(copy_main): Handle --dump-section.
* doc/binutils.texi: Document --dump-section option.
* NEWS: Mention new feature.
Diffstat (limited to 'binutils/doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | binutils/doc/binutils.texi | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi index 6abcae2..39aa077 100644 --- a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi +++ b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi @@ -1089,6 +1089,7 @@ objcopy [@option{-F} @var{bfdname}|@option{--target=}@var{bfdname}] [@option{--change-warnings}] [@option{--no-change-warnings}] [@option{--set-section-flags} @var{sectionpattern}=@var{flags}] [@option{--add-section} @var{sectionname}=@var{filename}] + [@option{--dump-section} @var{sectionname}=@var{filename}] [@option{--rename-section} @var{oldname}=@var{newname}[,@var{flags}]] [@option{--long-section-names} @{enable,disable,keep@}] [@option{--change-leading-char}] [@option{--remove-leading-char}] @@ -1475,6 +1476,17 @@ Add a new section named @var{sectionname} while copying the file. The 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. +Note - it may be necessary to use the @option{--set-section-flags} +option to set the attributes of the newly created section. + +@item --dump-section @var{sectionname}=@var{filename} +Place the contents of section named @var{sectionname} into the file +@var{filename}, overwriting any contents that may have been there +previously. This option is the inverse of @option{--add-section}. +This option is similar to the @option{--only-section} option except +that it does not create a formatted file, it just dumps the contents +as raw binary data, without applying any relocations. The option can +be specified more than once. @item --rename-section @var{oldname}=@var{newname}[,@var{flags}] Rename a section from @var{oldname} to @var{newname}, optionally |