[gold, strip] Question about the changed offset when stripping

[H.J. Lu]

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Cary Coutant <ccoutant@google.com> wrote:
>>> This sounds related to PR gdb/11786:
>>>
>>>    https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11786
>>
>> Hasn't that been fixed in GDB?
>
> It has, for the specific cases where the PF_W bit for the PT_GNU_RELRO
> segment was changed by strip, and where the p_align value was changed.
> But this is yet another instance where strip changes something
> unexpected and innocuous, and GDB thinks the binaries don't match even
> when the two are effectively equivalent.
>

A bug report is needed to investigate it.


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H.J.