[PATCH v5] objcopy: add option to specify custom prefix for symbol of binary input

[Jan Beulich]

On 29.10.2025 03:07, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 03:53:48PM +0200, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
>> --- a/bfd/bfd.c
>> +++ b/bfd/bfd.c
>> @@ -105,6 +105,9 @@ CODE_FRAGMENT
>>  .  {* The filename the application opened the BFD with.  *}
>>  .  const char *filename;
>>  .
>> +.  {* The symbol name for the file or NULL.  *}
>> +.  const char *binary_symbol_prefix;
>> +.
> 
> Move this to binary.c line 44, without the special markup, and better
> call the variable _bfd_binary_symbol_prefix.  We're just giving a side
> channel from binutils/objcopy.c to bfd/binary.c.

I'm curious, especially in the context of a series I submitted earlier this
week: Aren't symbols prefixed _bfd_ supposed to be library-internal? Whereas
exported symbols would be prefixed bfd_? Said series is trying to tidy things
at least some in this regard ...

Jan