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RFC: Objcopy --only-keep-debug update

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Fri Aug 7 15:56:00 GMT 2015 
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 3:48 AM, Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
>   Thanks for the comments on the previous patch.  I am attaching a third
>   iteration of this patch, which I hope will satisfy everyone.  In this
>   version I have followed Alan's suggestion of detecting the change in
>   the _bfd_elf_copy_private_bfd_data function, and I have fixed the text
>   in binutils.texi describing how --only-keep-debug operates.
>
>   Any more comments or suggestions ?
>
> Cheers
>   Nick
>
> bfd/ChangeLog
> 2015-08-04  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
>
>         * elf.c (_bfd_elf_copy_private_bfd_data): Copy the sh_link and
>         sh_info fields of sections whose type has been changed to
>         SHT_NOBITS.
>
> binutils/ChangeLog
> 2015-08-04  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
>
>         * doc/binutils.texi: Document that the --only-keep-debug option
>         to strip and objcopy preserves the section headers of stripped
>         sections.
>
> binutils/testsuite/ChangeLog
> 2015-08-04  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
>
>         * binutils-all/objcopy.exp (keep_debug_symbols_and_check_links):
>         New proc.  Checks that debug-info-only binaries retain the
>         sh_link field in stripped sections.
>

This breaks binutils:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18785

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H.J.
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