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MIPS, strip --only-keep-debug & an infinite loop

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Fri Apr 29 13:51:00 GMT 2005 
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 03:01:55PM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> > On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > 
> > > >  Hmm, it looks like a problem with "strip" in the first place -- 
> > > > ".MIPS.options" isn't meant to be touched by that tool.

objcopy --only-keep-debug does the same thing to _every_ non-debug
section.  Take a look at the resulting files.

> > > Well, for --only-keep-debug it should remove .MIPS.options.
> > 
> >  The spec says the section is never to be stripped; it has that 
> > SHF_MIPS_NOSTRIP flag set for this purpose.  Given the section is meant to 
> > be used by run-time ELF loaders (both for static and dynamic binaries), 
> > that's quite a reasonable expectation.  Are there other (IRIX?) 
> > implementations that disagree with the spec in this respect?
> 
> No, for the ELF loader that's correct. I misunderstood the semantics
> of --only-keep-debug. (Why isn't it just called --keep-debug?)

I would not expect --keep-debug to remove non-debug sections, unlike
--only-keep-debug :-)

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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