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From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: "H.J. Lu via Binutils" <binutils@sourceware.org>,
	Kaylee Blake <klkblake@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] ELF: Strip section header in ELF objects
Date: Tue, 30 May 2023 11:51:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMe9rOrZk14rX_HEyEHt5zjKGavRN7oukkRZMGECgnkqrbNh3w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87cz2hacah.fsf@igel.home>

On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 11:45 AM Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>
> On Mai 30 2023, H.J. Lu via Binutils wrote:
>
> > Section header isn't mandatory on ELF executable nor shared library.
> > This patch set adds a new linker option, -z nosectionheader, to omit ELF
> > section header, an new objcopy and strip option, --strip-sections, to
> > remove ELF section header.
>
> IMHO --strip-sections is too easily confused with --remove-section.  How
> about naming it --strip-section-headers?
>

Good point.

Thanks.

-- 
H.J.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-30 18:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-30 17:12 H.J. Lu
2023-05-30 17:12 ` [PATCH 1/6] " H.J. Lu
2023-05-31  1:38   ` Alan Modra
2023-05-31 17:15     ` H.J. Lu
2023-05-31 23:43       ` Alan Modra
2023-05-30 17:12 ` [PATCH 2/6] bfd: Improve nm and objdump without section header H.J. Lu
2023-05-30 17:12 ` [PATCH 3/6] ld: Add a simple test for -z nosectionheader H.J. Lu
2023-05-30 17:12 ` [PATCH 4/6] binutils: Add a --strip-sections test H.J. Lu
2023-05-30 17:12 ` [PATCH 5/6] ld: Add tests for -z nosectionheader and --strip-sections H.J. Lu
2023-05-30 17:12 ` [PATCH 6/6] ld: Add -z nosectionheader test to bootstrap.exp H.J. Lu
2023-05-30 18:45 ` [PATCH 0/6] ELF: Strip section header in ELF objects Andreas Schwab
2023-05-30 18:51   ` H.J. Lu [this message]
2023-06-01 18:24     ` Fangrui Song
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-05-30 17:12 H.J. Lu
2020-03-21  0:08 H.J. Lu

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