llvm-mirror/tools/llvm-objcopy
Jake Ehrlich b63074777b [llvm-objcopy] Add --only-keep-debug as a noop
This option just keeps being a problem and really needs to be implemented
in some fashion. Implementing it properly requires some kind of
"replaceSectionReference" method because all the existing links need to be
maintained. The desired behavior is just for allocated sections to become
NOBITS but actually implementing that is rather tricky due to the current
design of llvm-objcopy. However converting allocated sections to NOBITS is
just an optimization and not something debuggers need. Debuggers can debug
a stripped executable and take an unstripped executable for that stripped
executable as input. Additionally allocated sections account for a very
small part of debug binaries so this optimization is quite small. I propose
that for the time being we implement this as a NOP so that people can use
llvm-objcopy where they need to, just in a sub-optimal way.

This option has already blocked a lot of people and its currently blocking me.

llvm-svn: 332396
2018-05-15 20:53:53 +00:00
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CMakeLists.txt [tools] Introduce llvm-strip 2018-05-07 19:32:09 +00:00
llvm-objcopy.cpp [llvm-objcopy] Add --only-keep-debug as a noop 2018-05-15 20:53:53 +00:00
llvm-objcopy.h [llvm-objcopy] Refactor llvm-objcopy to use reader and writer objects 2018-01-25 22:46:17 +00:00
LLVMBuild.txt Recommit "[llvm-objcopy] Switch over to using TableGen for parsing arguments" 2018-04-24 05:43:32 +00:00
ObjcopyOpts.td [llvm-objcopy] Add --only-keep-debug as a noop 2018-05-15 20:53:53 +00:00
Object.cpp [llvm-objcopy] Add --strip-symbol (-N) option 2018-05-09 21:36:54 +00:00
Object.h [llvm-objcopy] Add --strip-symbol (-N) option 2018-05-09 21:36:54 +00:00
StripOpts.td [llvm-strip] Add support for -remove-section 2018-05-11 05:27:06 +00:00