From: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: stripping symbols needed for relocations
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:57:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <416D51A7.5000108@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s16a810c.000@emea1-mh.id2.novell.com>
Hi Jan,
> Wouldn't it make sense to prevent doing such (except when --strip-all)
> in the first place (binutils/objcopy.c, filter_symbols) rather than
> generating an error message (bfd/elf.c,
> _bfd_elf_symbol_from_bfd_symbol)? Or are there specific uses of doing so
> that would not result in such an error?
I think that the only case where it would not matter is if the
relocation is in a section which is going to be discarded. So to answer
your first question, yes I think that filter_symbols() should try to
preserve reloc-used symbols unless --strip-all or --strip-symbol is in
effect. Note that the code does already try to do this by looking for
the BSF_KEEP flag.
Cheers
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-13 15:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-11 11:48 Jan Beulich
2004-10-13 15:57 ` Nick Clifton [this message]
2004-10-14 8:15 Jan Beulich
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2004-10-18 14:19 ` Nick Clifton
2004-12-15 15:51 Jan Beulich
2004-12-16 12:07 ` Nick Clifton
2004-12-16 13:18 Jan Beulich
2004-12-16 14:20 ` Dave Korn
2004-12-16 15:48 ` Nick Clifton
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