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diff --git a/binutils/objcopy.1 b/binutils/objcopy.1 index 3276b17..e83aa74 100644 --- a/binutils/objcopy.1 +++ b/binutils/objcopy.1 @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ objcopy \- copy and translate object files .RB "[\|" \-\-no\-adjust\-warnings\fR "\|]" .RB "[\|" \-\-set\-section\-flags=\fIsection=flags\fR "\|]" .RB "[\|" \-\-add\-section=\fIsectionname=filename\fR "\|]" +.RB "[\|" \-\-change\-leading\-char\fR "\|]" .RB "[\|" \-\-remove\-leading\-char\fR "\|]" .RB "[\|" \-v\ |\ \-\-verbose\fR "\|]" .RB "[\|" \-V\ |\ \-\-version\fR "\|]" @@ -219,13 +220,26 @@ 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. .TP +.B \-\-change\-leading\-char +Some object file formats use special characters at the start of +symbols. The most common such character is underscore, which compilers +often add before every symbol. This option tells +.B objcopy +to change the leading character of every symbol when it converts +between object file formats. If the object file formats use the same +leading character, this option has no effect. Otherwise, it will add +a character, or remove a character, or change a character, as +appropriate. +.TP .B \-\-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. +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. This is different from +@code{--change-leading-char} because it always changes the symbol name +when appropriate, regardless of the object file format of the output .TP .B \-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose Verbose output: list all object files modified. In the case of |