llvm-objcopy currently emits an error if a section to be removed is
referenced by another section. This is a reasonable thing to do, but is
different to GNU objcopy. We should allow users who know what they are
doing to have a way to produce the invalid ELF. This change adds a new
switch --allow-broken-links to both llvm-strip and llvm-objcopy to do
precisely that. The corresponding sh_link field is then set to 0 instead
of an error being emitted.
I cannot use llvm-readelf/readobj to test the link fields because they
emit an error if any sections, like the .dynsym, cannot be properly
loaded.
Reviewed by: rupprecht, grimar
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D60324
llvm-svn: 358649
In this diff the elf-specific tests are moved into the subfolder llvm-objcopy/ELF
(the change was discussed in the comments on https://reviews.llvm.org/D54674).
A separate code reivew wasn't sent for this change
since Phabricator is failing to create such a large diff.
Test plan:
make check-all
make check-llvm-tools
make check-llvm-tools-llvm-objcopy
llvm-svn: 347958
James Henderson