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| author | Richard Sandiford <rdsandiford@googlemail.com> | 2007-03-01 16:39:42 +0000 |
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| committer | Richard Sandiford <rdsandiford@googlemail.com> | 2007-03-01 16:39:42 +0000 |
| commit | d3e52d400ebf3840199b62eaafa92954110dc4fa (patch) | |
| tree | 7f4378331536c4e5e2ad822afd989d2cf101f111 /binutils/NEWS | |
| parent | 336becc77940136f16d65d66361397d6c4556293 (diff) | |
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binutils/
200x-xx-xx Phil Edwards <phil@codesourcery.com>
Richard Sandiford <richard@codesourcery.com>
* NEWS: Mention addition of --extract-symbol.
* doc/binutils.texi: Document it.
* objcopy.c (extract_symbol): New variable.
(OPTION_EXTRACT_SYMBOLS): New command_line_switch.
(copy_options): Add an entry for --extract-symbol.
(copy_usage): Mention --extract-symbol.
(copy_object): Set the start address to zero for --extract-symbol.
Do not copy private BFD data in that case.
(setup_section): Set the size, LMA and VMA to zero for
--extract-symbol. Do not copy private BFD data in that case.
(copy_section): Do not copy section contents if --extract-symbol
is passed.
(copy_main): Set extract_symbol to TRUE if --extract-symbol
is passed.
ld/testsuite/
* ld-elf/extract-symbol-1sym.d, ld-elf/extract-symbol-1sec.d,
* ld-elf/extract-symbol-1.s, ld-elf/extract-symbol-1.ld: New tests.
* ld-elf/binutils.exp: Run them.
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diff --git a/binutils/NEWS b/binutils/NEWS index d12450e389..f63a736662 100644 --- a/binutils/NEWS +++ b/binutils/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,10 @@ -*- text -*- +* Add --extract-symbol command line option to objcopy, which will + strip everything out of an ordinary object file or executable except + for its symbol table. Files containing just symbols can be useful + to some OSes. + * Add "-x NAME" to readelf in addition to "-x NUMBER". * Add -i and -t switches to cxxfilt. -i disables the display of implementation |
