RFC: strip --strip-nondebug

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 09:06:04AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> >   I am seeking comments and criticisms on the attached patch.  It adds
> >   a new switch to strip:
> > 
> >     --strip-nondebug
> > 
> >   This can be used to create an output file which only contains the
> >   debug information from an executable.  This would allow stripped
> >   binaries to be shipped with separate debug info files, and provided
> >   that the debugger supported it, they could still be debugged.
> 
> I recommend a different option name.  The other --strip* options
> affect only the symbol table and the debugging information.  This new
> option also affects the sections.  Maybe something like
>     strip --nondebug
> or
>     strip --keep-debug
> and don't forget
>     objcopy --keep-debug

How about:
  strip --keep-debug-only
  objcopy --keep-debug-only
?

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer