[PATCH] Fix section symbols in objcopy when removing sections with relocations from Elf objects

H. J. Lu hjl@lucon.org
Thu May 25 00:58:00 GMT 2006


On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 03:29:59PM +0100, Julian Brown wrote:
> Julian Brown wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >This patch fixes a problem where, if sections are removed during objcopy 
> >with Elf object files, the section symbols corresponding to the 
> >relocation sections for the removed sections may be left in the target 
> >object file.
> 
> This is a slightly-smarter version (thanks to offlist discussion with 
> Dan) which knows about recoving Elf symbols from BFD symbols, hence 
> avoids some unnecessary work.
> 

Can you add a testcase so that it won't be broken by accident?


H.J.



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