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Re: strip --strip-unneeded adds back section symbols
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Andrei Borzenkov |
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Re: strip --strip-unneeded adds back section symbols |
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Mon, 1 Feb 2016 14:49:10 +0300 |
On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Nick Clifton <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Andrei,
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>> It appears that recent binutils (earliest version I have is 2.24)
>> unconditionally add back section symbols when copying sections.
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> Please could you file a bug report about this in the binutils bugzilla
> system:
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> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/
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Done.
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19547
> The side effect of adding a symbol when actually trying to strip unneeded
> symbols was unintentional, and is a bug. I have not investigated yet, but I
> suspect that the simplest solution will be to make strip rerun its symbol
> removing pass after having copied all of the sections.
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OK, so we'll need to support symbol-less modules. Thanks!