On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 12:17:40PM +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote: > ARM data marker symbols "$d" indicate the start of a sequence of data > items in a section. For data only sections no data marker symbol is > necessary, but may be put pointing to the start of the section. > binutils however has a bug which places a data marker symbol somewhere > inside the section (at least for .debug_frame). > https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21809 > > When strip finds a symbol pointing to a debug section that would be > put into the .debug file then it will copy over the whole symbol table. > This isn't necessary because the symbol is redundant. > > Add an ebl hook to recognize data marker symbols with implementations > for arm and aarch64. Use it in strip to strip such symbols from the > symbol table if they point to a debug section.
Tested in Fedora rawhide where it fixed an rpm testsuite issue on arm. Pushed to master.
