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| author | James Henderson <jh7370@my.bristol.ac.uk> | 2019-09-25 13:09:12 +0000 |
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| committer | James Henderson <jh7370@my.bristol.ac.uk> | 2019-09-25 13:09:12 +0000 |
| commit | 4dd9b2faec5a3759e9911373e9fea64acda4c4e6 (patch) | |
| tree | b6445b09e7d85aa5624662020fb359c450c86ed8 /llvm | |
| parent | 1e36ed7fbcc783b1deec562139957adeb8ade953 (diff) | |
| download | bcm5719-llvm-4dd9b2faec5a3759e9911373e9fea64acda4c4e6.tar.gz bcm5719-llvm-4dd9b2faec5a3759e9911373e9fea64acda4c4e6.zip | |
[docs][llvm-strip] Update llvm-strip doc to better match llvm-objcopy's
Main changes are mostly wording of some options, but this change also
fixes a switch reference so that a link is created and moves
--strip-sections into the ELF-specific area since it is only supported
for ELF currently.
llvm-svn: 372864
Diffstat (limited to 'llvm')
| -rw-r--r-- | llvm/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-strip.rst | 20 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/llvm/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-strip.rst b/llvm/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-strip.rst index 5f820d6ce4f..41529bf08cc 100644 --- a/llvm/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-strip.rst +++ b/llvm/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-strip.rst @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ multiple file formats. .. option:: --no-strip-all - Disable --strip-all. + Disable :option:`--strip-all`. .. option:: -o <file> @@ -84,11 +84,7 @@ multiple file formats. .. option:: --strip-debug, -g - Remove all debug sections. - -.. option:: --strip-sections - - Remove all section headers and all sections not in segments. + Remove all debug sections from the output. .. option:: --strip-symbol <symbol>, -N @@ -147,12 +143,18 @@ them. .. option:: --keep-symbol <symbol>, -K - Do not remove symbols named ``<symbol>``. Can be specified multiple times to - keep multiple symbols. + When removing symbols from the output, do not remove symbols named + ``<symbol>``. Can be specified multiple times to keep multiple symbols. .. option:: --preserve-dates, -p - Preserve access and modification timestamps. + Preserve access and modification timestamps in the output. + +.. option:: --strip-sections + + Remove from the output all section headers and all section data not within + segments. Note that many tools will not be able to use an object without + section headers. EXIT STATUS ----------- |
