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Re: discard a weak symbol in object file

From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
To: Wolfgang Haidinger <Wolfgang dot Haidinger at br-automation dot com>
Cc: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: 28 Jun 2006 12:37:15 -0700
Subject: Re: discard a weak symbol in object file
References: <OF3B9D0582.D87946E7-ONC125719B.002B1317-C125719B.002C2040@br-automation.com>

Wolfgang Haidinger <Wolfgang.Haidinger@br-automation.com> writes:

> I tired to remove a local symbol in an .o file by the use of:
> arm-elf-objcopy -N <symbol-name> infile.o outfile.o
> 
> This works fine as long as the symbol is global (not weak nor local).
> Unfortunately objcopy provides just the conversion of symbols into weak or 
> local, but no option to convert into global.
> 
> Has anyone an idea how I can get rid of an unwanted symbol in an object 
> file, or how I can change it to be global?

I don't know whether there is a way, but I do know that the place to
ask is not here, but at binutils@sourceware.org; see
http://sourceware.org/binutils/

Ian

References:
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  - From: Wolfgang Haidinger

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