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RFC: Objcopy --only-keep-debug update

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Sat Aug 8 00:00:00 GMT 2015 
On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 4:17 PM, Hans-Peter Nilsson
<hans-peter.nilsson@axis.com> wrote:
>> From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 19:38:39 +0200
>
>> On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 8:56 AM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I checked in this patch to fix it.
>
>> PR binutils/18785
>> * binutils-all/objcopy.exp: Run strip-12.
>> * binutils-all/strip-12.d: New file.
>> * binutils-all/strip-12.s: Likewise.
>
> This uses the ".bss" directive which is common (no pun intended)
> but not present for all ELF targets.  (I see copy-pasting for
> lots of targets, maybe it wouldn't hurt to move it into
> gas/read.c.)  I changed to .section .bss which still provokes
> the same failure for arm-eabi and i686-linux, and also works for
> cris-elf.

Any particular reason not to support .bss/.data for all ELF targets?
It will make writing ELF assembly test easier.


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H.J.
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