RFC: Fixing objcopy --only-keep-debug

Nicholas Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Tue Jul 28 11:42:00 GMT 2015


Hi Guys,

 >    It seems to me that "objcopy --only-keep-debug" is not doing what it
>    is supposed to do, ie strip all non-debug sections, leaving a valid,
>    but truncated binary file:

*sigh*  It has been pointed out to me that all of these sections are 
needed so that other tools can match up the debuginfo file with the 
(possibly relocated) executable file.  So I am withdrawing this patch, 
although I think I might update the description of the --only-keep-debug 
option in the documentation instead...

Cheers
   Nick



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