From d3e52d400ebf3840199b62eaafa92954110dc4fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Sandiford Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 16:39:42 +0000 Subject: binutils/ 200x-xx-xx Phil Edwards Richard Sandiford * NEWS: Mention addition of --extract-symbol. * doc/binutils.texi: Document it. * objcopy.c (extract_symbol): New variable. (OPTION_EXTRACT_SYMBOLS): New command_line_switch. (copy_options): Add an entry for --extract-symbol. (copy_usage): Mention --extract-symbol. (copy_object): Set the start address to zero for --extract-symbol. Do not copy private BFD data in that case. (setup_section): Set the size, LMA and VMA to zero for --extract-symbol. Do not copy private BFD data in that case. (copy_section): Do not copy section contents if --extract-symbol is passed. (copy_main): Set extract_symbol to TRUE if --extract-symbol is passed. ld/testsuite/ * ld-elf/extract-symbol-1sym.d, ld-elf/extract-symbol-1sec.d, * ld-elf/extract-symbol-1.s, ld-elf/extract-symbol-1.ld: New tests. * ld-elf/binutils.exp: Run them. --- binutils/NEWS | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'binutils/NEWS') diff --git a/binutils/NEWS b/binutils/NEWS index d12450e..f63a736 100644 --- a/binutils/NEWS +++ b/binutils/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,10 @@ -*- text -*- +* Add --extract-symbol command line option to objcopy, which will + strip everything out of an ordinary object file or executable except + for its symbol table. Files containing just symbols can be useful + to some OSes. + * Add "-x NAME" to readelf in addition to "-x NUMBER". * Add -i and -t switches to cxxfilt. -i disables the display of implementation -- cgit v1.1