[PATCHv2] strip: keep .ctf section in stripped file

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi,

On Tue, 2022-12-20 at 22:35 +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 01, 2022 at 10:55:27AM -0500, Guillermo E. Martinez via Elfutils-devel wrote:
> > This is the second version patch to avoid remove the CTF section in
> > stripped files. Changes from v1:
> > 
> >   - Add description in tests/run-strip-remove-keep-ctf.sh
> >     mentioning how to regenerate test input file (testfile-ctf)
> > 
> > Please let me know your thoughts.
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > CTF debug format was designed to be present in stripped files, so
> > this section should not be removed, so a new --remove-ctf option
> > is added to indicate explicitly that .ctf section will be stripped
> > out from binary file.
> 
> Sorry, I see I never reviewed this v2 variant.  I know we tried to
> coordinate with binutils so eu-strip and binutils strip would do the
> same thing. And that Jose had an idea for a new section flag to
> automatically detect what section should/shouldn't be stripped (into a
> separate .debug file). What was the conclusion of that?

Any update on this?
How should .ctf sections be dealt with by strip like tools?

Thanks,

Mark