[PATCH v3] strip: keep .ctf section in stripped file
Nick Clifton
nickc@redhat.com
Tue Feb 28 12:59:19 GMT 2023
Hi Mark,
> O, this surprises me. I wasn't aware binutils strip keeps unallocated
> sections by default. But apparently it does. It doesn't seem specific
> to ".ctf". Do you know why? This seems counter to how strip is supposed
> to behave, at least how I understand it.
Actually thinking about it, there are a few important un-allocated sections
that ought to be kept in a binary. For example .gnu_debuglink and .shstrtab.
So maybe deleting unallocated sections by default is not such a good idea.
Cheers
Nick
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