query about a possible bug in strip command

Alan Modra amodra@gmail.com
Sun Nov 18 10:43:00 GMT 2018


On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 12:08:05PM -0500, Syed Imtiaz Hussain wrote:
> Hi,
>  The strip command offers a -D option which doesnt seem to work. I checked
> the source code, and the getopt_long in the *objcopy.c* doesnt seem to be
> picking -D or -U option.
> 
> *while ((c = getopt_long (argc, argv, "I:O:F:K:N:R:o:sSpdgxXHhVvw",*
> 
> 
> *am i missing something. or is it a bug*

You must be looking at old sources.  Current strip_main has

  while ((c = getopt_long (argc, argv, "I:O:F:K:MN:R:o:sSpdgxXHhVvwDU",
			   strip_options, (int *) 0)) != EOF)

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM



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