From db2e6adb5b3e3ac5c6e54c9e51cb92b2b421d001 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David MacKenzie Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 21:31:01 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * binutils.texi (objdump): Note some limitations of -h section address printing. --- binutils/ChangeLog | 5 +++++ binutils/binutils.texi | 19 ++++++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/binutils/ChangeLog b/binutils/ChangeLog index cecd866931..90c330809c 100644 --- a/binutils/ChangeLog +++ b/binutils/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +Mon Jan 24 13:29:02 1994 David J. Mackenzie (djm@thepub.cygnus.com) + + * binutils.texi (objdump): Note some limitations of -h section + address printing. + Sat Jan 22 16:20:46 1994 Stan Shebs (shebs@andros.cygnus.com) * Makefile.in (MALLOC): Set to emptiness by default. diff --git a/binutils/binutils.texi b/binutils/binutils.texi index c59a621e0a..7187b7e724 100644 --- a/binutils/binutils.texi +++ b/binutils/binutils.texi @@ -731,7 +731,8 @@ objcopy [ -F @var{bfdname} | --target=@var{bfdname} ] [ -O @var{bfdname} | --output-target=@var{bfdname} ] [ -S | --strip-all ] [ -g | --strip-debug ] [ -x | --discard-all ] [ -X | --discard-locals ] - [ -v | --verbose ] [ -V | --version ] [ --help ] + [ -b @var{byte} | --byte=@var{byte} ] [ -v | --verbose ] + [ -V | --version ] [ --help ] @var{infile} [@var{outfile}] @end smallexample @@ -789,6 +790,13 @@ Do not copy non-global symbols from the source file. Do not copy compiler-generated local symbols. (These usually start with @samp{L} or @samp{.}.) +@item -b @var{byte} +@itemx --byte=@var{byte} +Keep only every @var{byte}th byte of the input file (header data is not +affected). @var{byte} can be in the range from 0 to 3. This option is +useful for creating files to program 4 ROMs to create 32-bit words. It +is typically used with an @code{srec} output target. + @item -V @itemx --version Show the version number of @code{objcopy}. @@ -879,6 +887,15 @@ each of the @var{objfile} files. Display summary information from the section headers of the object file. +File segments may be relocated to nonstandard addresses, for example by +using the @samp{-Ttext}, @samp{-Tdata}, or @samp{-Tbss} options to +@code{ld}. However, some object file formats, such as a.out, do not +store the starting address of the file segments. In those situations, +although @code{ld} relocates the sections correctly, using @samp{objdump +-h} to list the file section headers cannot show the correct addresses. +Instead, it shows the usual addresses, which are implicit for the +target. + @item --help Print a summary of the options to @code{objdump} and exit.