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Re: [PATCH] new option for objcopy: --keep-global-symbol
- To: Nick Clifton <nickc at cambridge dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] new option for objcopy: --keep-global-symbol
- From: Philip Blundell <pb at nexus dot co dot uk>
- Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 10:19:10 +0100
- cc: hhonda at kobe-catv dot ne dot jp, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <200105281423.XAA07719@ns01.kobe-catv.ne.jp> <m3y9rg8p1j.fsf@north-pole.nickc.cambridge.redhat.com>
Hi Nick
>I am sorry but I still have serious misgivings about accepting this
>patch. I am still open to persuasion however, and I hope that this
>email will start some discussion on the binutils list to see what
>other people think.
Well, I agree with you that this patch doesn't look like the best way to
solve the problem at hand. But, conversely, given that we already have
--localize-symbol and so on, it does seem to be a reasonable extension to
objcopy's existing behaviour. So, I think we should accept the patch
regardless of the fact that it might be put to misguided use.
p.