strip --strip-unneeded adds back section symbols

Andrei Borzenkov arvidjaar@gmail.com
Mon Feb 1 11:49:00 GMT 2016


On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi Andrei,
>
>> It appears that recent binutils (earliest version I have is 2.24)
>> unconditionally add back section symbols when copying sections.
>
>
> Please could you file a bug report about this in the binutils bugzilla
> system:
>
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/
>

Done.

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19547

> The side effect of adding a symbol when actually trying to strip unneeded
> symbols was unintentional, and is a bug.  I have not investigated yet, but I
> suspect that the simplest solution will be to make strip rerun its symbol
> removing pass after having copied all of the sections.
>

OK, so we'll need to support symbol-less modules. Thanks!



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