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Re: Add an --extract-symbol option to objcopy
- From: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- To: binutils at sourceware dot org, richard at codesourcery dot com
- Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 05:20:18 -0800
- Subject: Re: Add an --extract-symbol option to objcopy
- References: <87ejo9qftu.fsf@firetop.home>
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 01:00:13PM +0000, Richard Sandiford wrote:
> This is unfortunately one of those patches that is being submitted
> upstream long after it has been used in the wild (namely for VxWorks).
> I don't know how far back it dates, or who came up with the option
> specification originally.
>
> The test needs to assemble something _and_ link it. No binutils test
> seems to do that at the moment, so I added support to run_test.
Please see
ld/testsuite/ld-elf/binutils.exp
Linker isn't supported for all targets. If the newly built linker
is used, the test should go into ld/testsuite.
H.J.