[PATCH] new option for objcopy: --keep-global-symbol

[Philip Blundell]

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.