From: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
To: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>,
"Guillermo E. Martinez" <guillermo.e.martinez@oracle.com>
Cc: elfutils-devel@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] strip: keep .ctf section in stripped file
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2023 12:59:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8367d8ae-670d-b614-d922-211dcae11250@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <492387583758712a4f5f1f2e2646a3ba6a7a23f1.camel@klomp.org>
Hi Mark,
> O, this surprises me. I wasn't aware binutils strip keeps unallocated
> sections by default. But apparently it does. It doesn't seem specific
> to ".ctf". Do you know why? This seems counter to how strip is supposed
> to behave, at least how I understand it.
Actually thinking about it, there are a few important un-allocated sections
that ought to be kept in a binary. For example .gnu_debuglink and .shstrtab.
So maybe deleting unallocated sections by default is not such a good idea.
Cheers
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-28 12:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-31 2:26 [PATCH] " Guillermo E. Martinez
2022-05-31 7:06 ` Mark Wielaard
2022-05-31 10:26 ` Jose E. Marchesi
2022-05-31 12:50 ` Jose E. Marchesi
2022-06-01 4:34 ` Guillermo E. Martinez
2022-06-01 15:55 ` [PATCHv2] " Guillermo E. Martinez
2022-12-20 21:35 ` Mark Wielaard
2023-02-22 16:42 ` Mark Wielaard
2023-02-22 16:59 ` Jose E. Marchesi
2023-02-22 17:12 ` Guillermo E. Martinez
2023-02-22 23:04 ` Mark Wielaard
2023-02-23 18:34 ` Guillermo E. Martinez
2023-02-23 18:42 ` [PATCH v3] " Guillermo E. Martinez
2023-02-24 11:51 ` Mark Wielaard
2023-02-24 16:48 ` Guillermo E. Martinez
2023-02-28 12:24 ` Mark Wielaard
2023-02-28 12:45 ` Nick Clifton
2023-02-28 12:59 ` Nick Clifton [this message]
2023-02-28 14:27 ` Mark Wielaard
2023-03-03 2:40 ` Guillermo E. Martinez
2023-03-03 12:15 ` Mark Wielaard
2023-03-03 12:24 ` Nick Clifton
2023-03-04 14:00 ` Guillermo E. Martinez
2023-03-07 14:50 ` Mark Wielaard
2023-03-07 20:47 ` Guillermo E. Martinez
2023-03-08 17:45 ` Nix
2023-03-09 23:08 ` Mark Wielaard
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