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Re: Should strip gnore the unknown files in archive?
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
- To: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 11:49:32 +0930
- Subject: Re: Should strip gnore the unknown files in archive?
- References: <20050607233136.GA16817@lucon.org>
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 04:31:36PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> When strip is used on an archive with mixed .o and .c files, it will
> report an error:
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=995
>
> Should strip gnore the unknown files in archive?
Do you think "strip foo.c" should warn? If so, then strip on unknown
files in archives should warn too. I suppose it would be nice for strip
to continue processing other files in the archive, which doesn't seem to
be the case now.
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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre