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Re: Strip on mips
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- To: elfutils-devel at lists dot fedorahosted dot org
- Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:50:30 -0700
- Subject: Re: Strip on mips
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:24:33AM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > Why do you think that stripping SHT_ARM_ATTRIBUTES sections is wrong?
> > They are only used for linking and for debugging.
>
> Yes, because they are used for linking, and there seems to be no such
> thing as linkinfo yet (like debuginfo but for linking).
strip also removes the symbol table, so linking is impossible. Give an
example of something that you were doing before that worked and now is
broken.