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The objcopy and strip tools make use of the bfd library to manipulate the state of the input file (to produce an output file). Within the input file (for ELF at least), relocations are held within a section, and so, if the user wanted to remove the relocations, but keep the section to which the relocations would have been applied, it is tempting to think that specifying the name of a relocation section to objcopy's --remove-section option might do what you want, for example: objcopy --remove-section=.rela.text input.elf output.elf However, this does not work. The reason is that when the input file is loaded, relocations are not managed as sections, but are, instead, loaded as data associated with the section to which the relocations would be applied. In our example above the relocations in '.rela.text' are held as data on the section '.text' once 'input.elf' is loaded. One task that objcopy and strip do is copy the relocations from the input file to the output file if the section is also being copied from the input file to the output file. This commit adds a new command line option for objcopy and strip, --remove-relocations, which can be used to remove the relocations, while keeping the section that the relocations would have been applied to, for example: objcopy --remove-relocations=.text input.elf output.elf in this case the section '.text' will appear in both 'input.elf' and 'output.elf', but any relocations in 'input.elf' that apply to '.text' will not be present in 'output.elf'. I have also added a special case to the handling of --remove-section that spots if a user tries to remove a relocation section (currently this is done by spotting the '.rela.' or '.rel.' prefix) and forwards the request to --remove-relocations. As with --remove-section and --only-section the --remove-relocations option supports the '!' prefix on the section-patterns it takes to allow for sections to be specifically not matched. There are tests for all the new functionality. binutils/ChangeLog: * doc/binutils.texi (objcopy): Document 'remove-relocations'. (strip): Likewise. * objcopy.c (SECTION_CONTEXT_REMOVE_RELOCS): Define. (enum command_line_switch): Add 'OPTION_REMOVE_RELOCS'. (struct option strip_options): Add 'remove-relocations'. (struct option copy_options): Likewise. (copy_usage): Likewise. (strip_usage): Likewise. (handle_remove_relocations_option): New function. (discard_relocations): New function. (handle_remove_section_option): New function. (copy_relocations_in_section): Use discard_relocations. (strip_main): Use handle_remove_section_option for 'remove-section', and handle 'remove-relocations' option. (copy_main): Likewise. * testsuite/binutils-all/objcopy.exp: Run new tests. * testsuite/binutils-all/remove-relocs-01.d: New file. * testsuite/binutils-all/remove-relocs-01.s: New file. * testsuite/binutils-all/remove-relocs-02.d: New file. * testsuite/binutils-all/remove-relocs-03.d: New file. * testsuite/binutils-all/remove-relocs-04.d: New file. * testsuite/binutils-all/remove-relocs-05.d: New file. * testsuite/binutils-all/remove-relocs-06.d: New file. |
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binutils | ||
config | ||
cpu | ||
elfcpp | ||
etc | ||
gas | ||
gdb | ||
gold | ||
gprof | ||
include | ||
intl | ||
ld | ||
libdecnumber | ||
libiberty | ||
opcodes | ||
readline | ||
sim | ||
texinfo | ||
zlib | ||
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ChangeLog | ||
compile | ||
config-ml.in | ||
config.guess | ||
config.rpath | ||
config.sub | ||
configure | ||
configure.ac | ||
COPYING | ||
COPYING.LIB | ||
COPYING.LIBGLOSS | ||
COPYING.NEWLIB | ||
COPYING3 | ||
COPYING3.LIB | ||
depcomp | ||
djunpack.bat | ||
install-sh | ||
libtool.m4 | ||
ltgcc.m4 | ||
ltmain.sh | ||
ltoptions.m4 | ||
ltsugar.m4 | ||
ltversion.m4 | ||
lt~obsolete.m4 | ||
MAINTAINERS | ||
Makefile.def | ||
Makefile.in | ||
Makefile.tpl | ||
makefile.vms | ||
missing | ||
mkdep | ||
mkinstalldirs | ||
move-if-change | ||
README | ||
README-maintainer-mode | ||
setup.com | ||
src-release.sh | ||
symlink-tree | ||
ylwrap |
README for GNU development tools This directory contains various GNU compilers, assemblers, linkers, debuggers, etc., plus their support routines, definitions, and documentation. If you are receiving this as part of a GDB release, see the file gdb/README. If with a binutils release, see binutils/README; if with a libg++ release, see libg++/README, etc. That'll give you info about this package -- supported targets, how to use it, how to report bugs, etc. It is now possible to automatically configure and build a variety of tools with one command. To build all of the tools contained herein, run the ``configure'' script here, e.g.: ./configure make To install them (by default in /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib, etc), then do: make install (If the configure script can't determine your type of computer, give it the name as an argument, for instance ``./configure sun4''. You can use the script ``config.sub'' to test whether a name is recognized; if it is, config.sub translates it to a triplet specifying CPU, vendor, and OS.) If you have more than one compiler on your system, it is often best to explicitly set CC in the environment before running configure, and to also set CC when running make. For example (assuming sh/bash/ksh): CC=gcc ./configure make A similar example using csh: setenv CC gcc ./configure make Much of the code and documentation enclosed is copyright by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the file COPYING or COPYING.LIB in the various directories, for a description of the GNU General Public License terms under which you can copy the files. REPORTING BUGS: Again, see gdb/README, binutils/README, etc., for info on where and how to report problems.