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From: "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
To: Julian Brown <julian@codesourcery.com>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org, Richard Earnshaw <Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com>, 	Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix section symbols in objcopy when removing sections  with relocations from Elf objects
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On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 03:29:59PM +0100, Julian Brown wrote:
> Julian Brown wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >This patch fixes a problem where, if sections are removed during objcopy 
> >with Elf object files, the section symbols corresponding to the 
> >relocation sections for the removed sections may be left in the target 
> >object file.
> 
> This is a slightly-smarter version (thanks to offlist discussion with 
> Dan) which knows about recoving Elf symbols from BFD symbols, hence 
> avoids some unnecessary work.
> 

Can you add a testcase so that it won't be broken by accident?


H.J.