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| -rw-r--r-- | binutils/doc/binutils.texi | 16 |
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diff --git a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi index a5bfd4c..d63c04c 100644 --- a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi +++ b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi @@ -1091,6 +1091,7 @@ objcopy [@option{-F} @var{bfdname}|@option{--target=}@var{bfdname}] [@option{--set-section-flags} @var{sectionpattern}=@var{flags}] [@option{--add-section} @var{sectionname}=@var{filename}] [@option{--dump-section} @var{sectionname}=@var{filename}] + [@option{--update-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}] @@ -1489,6 +1490,21 @@ 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 --update-section @var{sectionname}=@var{filename} +Replace the existing contents of a section named @var{sectionname} +with the contents of file @var{filename}. The size of the section +will be adjusted to the size of the file. The section flags for +@var{sectionname} will be unchanged. For ELF format files the section +to segment mapping will also remain unchanged, something which is not +possible using @option{--remove-section} followed by +@option{--add-section}. The option can be specified more than once. + +Note - it is possible to use @option{--rename-section} and +@option{--update-section} to both update and rename a section from one +command line. In this case, pass the original section name to +@option{--update-section}, and the original and new section names to +@option{--rename-section}. + @item --rename-section @var{oldname}=@var{newname}[,@var{flags}] Rename a section from @var{oldname} to @var{newname}, optionally changing the section's flags to @var{flags} in the process. This has |