This is the mail archive of the binutils@sourceware.org mailing list for the binutils project.

Index Nav:	[Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav:	[Date Prev] [Date Next]	[Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format:	[Raw text]

Re: objcopy --only-keep-debug and ELF program headers

From: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
To: binutils at sourceware dot org, Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 12:06:36 +0100
Subject: Re: objcopy --only-keep-debug and ELF program headers
References: <20070510055808.GG14554@bubble.grove.modra.org>

Hi Alan,

This removes program headers entirely from ELF debug info files.
I can't see that they're needed, and existing comments in objcopy.c
tend to reinforce this.  Furthermore, a quick hello world test shows
gdb is happy.  However, I'll wait for Nick to give the OK on this one
since I haven't played much with separate debug info.

	PR 4479
	* objcopy.c (copy_object): Don't copy ELF program headers for
	--only-keep-debug.

You are right, the program headers are not needed. Please check in the patch with my blessing.

Cheers
  Nick

References:
- objcopy --only-keep-debug and ELF program headers
  - From: Alan Modra

Index Nav:	[Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav:	[Date Prev] [Date Next]	[Thread Prev] [Thread Next]