Hi Andrei,
It appears that recent binutils (earliest version I have is 2.24) unconditionally add back section symbols when copying sections.
Please could you file a bug report about this in the binutils bugzilla system: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/
I verified that filter_symbols() in strip actually removes everything from source module, and symbol table reappears deep in call chain initiated by copy_section(), where STT_SECTION is unconditionally added for every present section. Was this change intentional?
Yes and no. The change to add a section symbol to any newly created section was intentional. This is helpful for a variety of reasons, not least being able to create relocations against that symbol. The side effect of adding a symbol when actually trying to strip unneeded symbols was unintentional, and is a bug. I have not investigated yet, but I suspect that the simplest solution will be to make strip rerun its symbol removing pass after having copied all of the sections. Cheers Nick _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
