ELF phdrs in .debug files
Roland McGrath
roland@redhat.com
Tue May 22 17:58:00 GMT 2007
> I agree with Alan here. I think that recomputing the program headers is
> a good feature, and a necessary one in situations where the output file
> is significantly different from the input one.
I have no special opinions about objcopy's behavior in cases other than
strip-to-debug.
> What we appear to have with --only-keep-debug is a special case where we
> want to preserve the program headers of the input file, even though
> strictly speaking they no longer apply to the output file. So it sounds
> like we need to add code to the BFD library to preserve (as best we can)
> the program headers in this particular circumstance. Do you agree ?
That sounds fine to me.
Thanks,
Roland
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