MIPS: Why .pdr section is not stripped?

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Sergei,

> I'm working with old MIPS toolchain (gcc-3.2, binutils 2.11.94)

Binutils 2.11.94 is really old...

> and noted that "strip --strip-unneeded" leaves the .pdr section
> untouched.

Almost certainly a bug.  Try using a modern binutils (eg 2.18) and you 
should see much better behaviour.

Cheers
   Nick