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RFC: Objcopy --only-keep-debug update

Hans-Peter Nilsson hans-peter.nilsson@axis.com
Sat Aug 8 06:05:00 GMT 2015 
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> 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.

I don't see what so much easier with writing ".bss" instead of
".section .bss" but otherwise like I said above.

brgds, H-P
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