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Re: RFC: Objcopy --only-keep-debug update


On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Mark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-07-29 at 12:09 -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Mark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2015-07-29 at 14:21 +0100, Nicholas Clifton wrote:
>> >>  One problem I did have with this part of the patch was in determining
>> >>  which sections should have their sh_link fields preserved.  In the
>> >>  end I had to encode the section names directly, but I feel that their
>> >>  ought to be a better way.
>> >
>> > I should prefix this with noting that eu-unstrip only got confused
>> > because the sh_flags weren't preserved. In particular the missing
>> > SHF_INFO_LINK on .plt.rela sections caused it to not match those in the
>> > main and debug file. I have a workaround for that now:
>> > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/elfutils-devel/2015-July/005076.html
>> >
>>
>> Can you try binutils master branch?  I think I have fixed it.
>
> It doesn't seem so. This is how I tried:
>
> $ gcc --version | head -1
> gcc (GCC) 5.1.1 20150618 (Red Hat 5.1.1-4)
> $ ./objcopy --version | head -1
> GNU objcopy (GNU Binutils) 2.25.51.20150729
> $ cat > testprog.c <<EOF
> int main()
> {
>     return 0;
> }
> EOF
> $ gcc -o testprog -g testprog.c
> $ ./objcopy --only-keep-debug testprog testprog.debuginfo
> $ eu-readelf -S testprog testprog.debuginfo | grep rela.plt
> [10] .rela.plt            RELA         0000000000400378 00000378 00000030 24 AI     5  12  8
> [10] .rela.plt            NOBITS       0000000000400378 00000298 00000030 24 A      0   0  8
>
> Note how the SHF_INFO_LINK flag, sh_info and sh_link are missing in the
> debuginfo file.
>
>

Please file a binutils bug report.

Thanks.

-- 
H.J.


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