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Re: Should strip discard the .ctf section ?
- From: Nick Alcock <nick dot alcock at oracle dot com>
- To: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- Cc: "Jose E. Marchesi" <jose dot marchesi at oracle dot com>, "binutils\@sourceware.org" <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 17:32:52 +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> <85d68fb7-f128-daf6-f943-0c4018bfd307@redhat.com>
On 2 Oct 2019, Nick Clifton said:
> 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.
If they're complaining, I need to make CTF smaller :P (plans are afoot:
it is expected to shrink :) ).
But yes, if they want literally no growth at all... one wonders if they
can ever upgrade anything ever, but still. :)
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