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Re: [gold, strip] Question about the changed offset when stripping
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
- To: Alexander Ivchenko <aivchenk at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Cary Coutant <ccoutant at google dot com>, binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>, Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 21:53:23 +1030
- Subject: Re: [gold, strip] Question about the changed offset when stripping
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On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 02:30:48PM +0400, Alexander Ivchenko wrote:
> Still, it looks a bit strange that strip did the job that it was not
> asked for: erasing the padding between got.plt and bss.
No, strip didn't change any padding. The VMA is unchanged after strip.
Since .bss is not loaded from file, the file offset hardly matters.
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM