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Re: stripping symbols needed for relocations

From: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich at novell dot com>
Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:13:35 +0000
Subject: Re: stripping symbols needed for relocations
References: <s1c05d52.045@emea1-mh.id2.novell.com>

Hi Jan,

binutils/
2004-12-15 Jan Beulich  <jbeulich@novell.com>

	* doc/binutils.texi: Document --strip-unneeded-symbol and
	--strip-unneeded-symbols.
	* objcopy.c (strip_unneeded_list): New.
	(enum command_line_switch): Add OPTION_STRIP_UNNEEDED_SYMBOL
	and OPTION_STRIP_UNNEEDED_SYMBOLS.
	(copy_options): Add  --strip-unneeded-symbol and
	--strip-unneeded-symbols.
	(copy_usage): Likewise.
	(filter_symbols): Suppress copying of symbol if in
strip_unneeded_list
	and the symbol is not needed.
	(copy_main): Handle OPTION_STRIP_UNNEEDED_SYMBOL and
	OPTION_STRIP_UNNEEDED_SYMBOLS.

Approved - please apply, but ...

* Please also add an entry to binutils/NEWS mentioning this new feature.

* Please consider creating a new test in the binutils testsuite to check the behaviour of this feature.

Cheers
  Nick

References:
- Re: stripping symbols needed for relocations
  - From: Jan Beulich

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