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| author | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2016-07-20 09:41:10 +0100 |
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| committer | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2016-07-20 09:41:10 +0100 |
| commit | f2629855d950f42c6d6ed7132cf94dd70e308985 (patch) | |
| tree | c28f2d08d7402937cdd247a715f665afc04c16e3 /binutils | |
| parent | bedbe19cc09fbb6e921872334bfcd371ac5b769d (diff) | |
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Update documentation to reflect that the symbol localization options of objcopy do not affect unique symbols.
* doc/binutils.texi (objcopy): Note that the localize symbol
options do not affect unique symbols.
Diffstat (limited to 'binutils')
| -rw-r--r-- | binutils/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | binutils/doc/binutils.texi | 5 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/binutils/ChangeLog b/binutils/ChangeLog index fed99fc..6346e63 100644 --- a/binutils/ChangeLog +++ b/binutils/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2016-07-20 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> + + * doc/binutils.texi (objcopy): Note that the localize symbol + options do not affect unique symbols. + 2016-07-16 Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> * ar.c: Include plugin-api.h. diff --git a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi index 5a564ef..2f4ea0a 100644 --- a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi +++ b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi @@ -1321,8 +1321,9 @@ such as @option{-L}. @item -L @var{symbolname} @itemx --localize-symbol=@var{symbolname} -Make symbol @var{symbolname} local to the file, so that it is not -visible externally. This option may be given more than once. +Convert a global or weak symbol called @var{symbolname} into a local +symbol, so that it is not visible externally. This option may be +given more than once. Note - unique symbols are not converted. @item -W @var{symbolname} @itemx --weaken-symbol=@var{symbolname} |