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

Nick Clifton nickc@cambridge.redhat.com
Wed May 30 03:54:00 GMT 2001


Hi Honda,

  Well several people wrote in to support your idea, and nobody
  complained, so I have gone ahead and applied your patch to the
  sources.  In fact, being the nice kind of chap that I am, I also
  applied the patch to the 2.11 branch, so that when that is released
  in will be in there too.

  I made two changes to your patch.  Firstly I created an entry in the
  NEWS file mentioning this new feature.  Secondly I changed the code
  inside add_specified_symbols() so that it could cope with lines that
  are terminated by \r\n, so that it will work under Windows(tm).  I
  also added the ability to use '#' as the start of a line comment,
  because it was simple to do, and it is always a good idea to be
  able to add comments to files.

  So, thanks very much for submitting this patch, and I am sorry that
  it took so long for it to be accepted, but it got through in the end.

Cheers
	Nick



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