Re: PATCH: objcopy.c: redefine-sym-specific for archive files

[Daniel Marques <marques at cs dot cornell dot edu>]

> Why add a new switch ?  Why not simply extend the syntax accepted by the 
> --redefine-sym switch so that if a colon is present it behaves as per 
> your new switch ?

I wasn't sure if the colon could be a valid character in a symbol 
somewhere, if it isn't then it probably makes more sense to do like you 
said and just have one flag.


> Also - with a patch like this that adds a new feature, we really need an 
> FSF copyright assignment in place before we can accept the patch.  Would 
> you be interested in completing such an assignment ?

Sure.  Send me the details.



> Actually I would definitely encourage breaking out the code from 
> add_redefine_syms_file, generalizing it and making it available to other 
>  switches which might benefit.

I'll take a look.  If we reuse the old switch, then we might not need to 
do any changes here.


Thanks.

Dan