Re: [RS6000] GNU strip doesn't remove ".debug" section

[Alan Modra]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 10:43:06AM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> On IBM AIX 5.1 (RS6000) platform, the GNU "strip" program doesn't remove 
> ".debug" sections (unless when using --remove-section=".debug").
> 
> I suggest a fix like the following:
> --- binutils-2.12.1/bfd/coffcode.h~   Thu May  9 16:48:49 2002
> +++ binutils-2.12.1/bfd/coffcode.h    Fri Jun 28 10:19:12 2002
> @@ -657,7 +657,7 @@
>  #endif
>          || strncmp (name, ".stab", 5) == 0)
>      {
> -#ifdef COFF_PAGE_SIZE
> +#if defined (COFF_PAGE_SIZE) || defined (RS6000COFF_C)
>        sec_flags |= SEC_DEBUGGING;
>  #endif
>      }

I'm no expert with the coff linker code, but did you see the following
comment in other places where SEC_DEBUGGING is set?

      /* We mark these as SEC_DEBUGGING, but only if COFF_PAGE_SIZE is
         defined.  coff_compute_section_file_positions uses
         COFF_PAGE_SIZE to ensure that the low order bits of the
         section VMA and the file offset match.  If we don't know
         COFF_PAGE_SIZE, we can't ensure the correct correspondence,
         and demand page loading of the file will fail.  */

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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre