This flag does not exist in GNU objcopy but has a major use case.
Debugging tools support the .build-id directory structure to find
debug binaries. There is no easy way to build this structure up
however. One way to do it is by using llvm-readelf and some crazy
shell magic. This implements the feature directly. It is most often
the case that you'll want to strip a file and send the original to
the .build-id directory but if you just want to send a file to the
.build-id directory you can copy to /dev/null instead.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D54384
llvm-svn: 348174
Summary:
--localize-symbol and --localize-hidden will currently localize common symbols. GNU objcopy will not localize these symbols even when explicitly requested, which seems reasonable; common symbols should always be global so they can be merged during linking.
See PR39461
Reviewers: jakehehrlich, jhenderson, alexshap, MaskRay, espindola
Reviewed By: jakehehrlich, jhenderson, alexshap, MaskRay
Subscribers: emaste, arichardson, alexshap, MaskRay, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D53782
llvm-svn: 345856
In this diff the elf-specific code is moved into the subfolder ELF
(and factored out from llvm-objcopy.cpp).
Test plan: make check-all
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D53790
llvm-svn: 345544
Jake Ehrlich