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Re: Should strip discard the .ctf section ?
- From: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- To: Nick Alcock <nick dot alcock at oracle dot com>
- Cc: "Jose E. Marchesi" <jose dot marchesi at oracle dot com>, "binutils at sourceware dot org" <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 13:06:47 +0100
- Subject: Re: Should strip discard the .ctf section ?
- References: <20190906225520.169680-1-nick.alcock@oracle.com> <20190906225520.169680-26-nick.alcock@oracle.com> <20190909004246.GN30165@bubble.grove.modra.org> <87k1a2eix0.fsf@esperi.org.uk> <8e0b48b9-8854-153a-9657-03364f899e97@redhat.com> <87v9thdbce.fsf@esperi.org.uk>
Hi Nick,
> The section is basically useless if strip removes it, so I'd vote no.
> (That's the entire reason for the focus on size in CTF.)
Ok, well I will shelve the idea for now. But it may have to be revisited
if we start to get complaints/bug-reports from users.
Cheers
Nick