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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