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Re: extra symtab entries in thumb mode
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:35:51AM +0300, Mikko Rapeli wrote:
> Indeed, stripping the binaries is the way to go when space is scarce.
>
> But NetBSD's binutils 2.16.1 (and some patches) don't include so many
> symbols, just 3261 entries in thumb mode. The extra underscore entries
> are gone as are $a, $d and $t's. That's why I didn't see this effect on
> binary size before binutils upgrade to 2.18.50.
>
> Is there some way to get the old functionality back?
>
> Did some tool change, say, command lines options between 2.16.1 and 2.18.50,
> which might cause this?
As I said before, they are a feature; there's no "old functionality"
to get back. In the previous binaries it was sometimes impossible to
tell whether a word was ARM, Thumb, or data.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery