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

[Guillermo E. Martinez]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 12:04:47AM +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi,

Hi Mark,

> 
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 11:12:07AM -0600, Guillermo E. Martinez wrote:
> > The conclusion was basically not use section flags to identify which
> > section should be stripped out or not, so, it requires other mechanisms
> > for explicitly specifying which sections should be removed, as eu-strip
> > does using arguments.
> > 
> > https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29737
> 
> OK, thanks.
> 
> > Worth it mention here, that my last test shows that .ctf section is not
> > stripped by ue-strip because it doesn't have a "debug" section name. 
> 
> Are you sure that is what happens? It might depend on whether or not
> you give eu-strip -g or not.
> 

Oh, sorry. Yes, you are right!. I looked what was wrong with my test
environment and I didn't realize the use of `-g' option  in my
find-debuginfo script.

> With -g only debug symbols and .debug sections are removed, but it
> keeps any other unused/unallocated symbol/section. Without -g I would
> expect eu-strip to remove the .ctf section (unless it is an allocated
> section or referenced from an allocated section/symbol table).
> 

I see, thanks for explanation!.

I'll send immediately PATCH-v3 rebased from master.

Kind regards,
guillermo