https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24809
Tom de Vries <vries at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Component|tools |binutils
Version|unspecified |2.33 (HEAD)
Product|elfutils |binutils
Summary|eu-unstrip to drop SECTION |objcopy to not add SECTION
|symbols if section |symbols if section
|.note.gnu.gold-version |.note.gnu.gold-version
|present |present
--- Comment #2 from Tom de Vries <vries at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to Mark Wielaard from comment #1)
> I can replicate this if I use objcopy to produce the hello.debug and
> hello.stripped binaries. But why don't you just use eu-strip?
>
I think the idea here is to have the tools from the two "products" to play nice
together.
> Doing:
> $ eu-strip -f hello.debug -o hello.stripped hello
> $ eu-unstrip hello.stripped hello.debug -o hello.unstripped
>
> Produces:
> $ ls -la
> -rwxrwxr-x. 1 mark mark 10416 Jul 15 14:50 hello
> -rw-rw-r--. 1 mark mark 92 Jul 15 14:50 hello.c
> -rwxrwxr-x. 1 mark mark 6840 Jul 15 14:52 hello.debug
> -rwxrwxr-x. 1 mark mark 6488 Jul 15 14:52 hello.stripped
> -rwxrwxr-x. 1 mark mark 10416 Jul 15 14:52 hello.unstripped
>
> $ readelf -s hello.debug | grep -c SECTION
> 0
> $ readelf -s hello.stripped | grep -c SECTION
> 0
> $ readelf -s hello.unstripped | grep -c SECTION
> 0
>
> Which seems much more reasonable than what objcopy does.
>
Right, I noticed that.
> I am not sure eu-unstrip should remove extra stuff objcopy adds. It seems
> that if the user created these bigger than necessary .debug and .stripped
> files, then they wanted that for some reason. It seems unwise to second
> guess the user.
>
> If there is a bug, then I think it is simply a bug in objcopy, which can be
> prevented by using eu-strip instead.
OK, changing product to binutils.
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