PATCH: PR binutils/4348: strip can't strip sections
Nick Clifton
nickc@redhat.com
Thu Apr 12 13:22:00 GMT 2007
Hi H. J.
> I don't see why objcopy should stop when there are no sections to be
> copied. After all, the resulting output file is still valid ELF
> file.
I agree that the tools should not fail. But they also should tell the
user that nothing has happened. Otherwise the user will never know that
their objcopy/strip command was pointless and they may then consider it
a bug that nothing has changed.
Cheers
Nick
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