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I want to use objcopy to remove the useless sections from the object file in order the shrink the library.
Now I am using libpng for example.
I add -ffunction-sections and -fdata-sections to CFLAGS of the Makefile
as to put every function into its own function.
But when I ran:
$objcopy -R .text.png_read_info pngread.o BFD: stXXXXYNYHix: symbol `png_read_info' required but not present
objcopy: stXXXXYNYHix: No symbols
$objcopy -N png_read_info pngread.o
BFD: stXXXX8m8Nnh: symbol `png_read_info' required but not present
objcopy: stXXXX8m8Nnh: No symbols
the comment of the error in bdf/elf.c is as bellow:
/* This case can occur when using --strip-symbol on a symbol
which is used in a relocation entry. */
So when I used --strip-all to remove all the symbols and relcation
informations of the object file.
This time the useless sections can be deleted.
But I don't want to remove all the symbols info, and I have no idea what
to do.
Cheers Nick
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