Hi, On Tue, 2022-12-20 at 22:35 +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote: > On Wed, Jun 01, 2022 at 10:55:27AM -0500, Guillermo E. Martinez via > Elfutils-devel wrote: > > This is the second version patch to avoid remove the CTF section in > > stripped files. Changes from v1: > > > > - Add description in tests/run-strip-remove-keep-ctf.sh > > mentioning how to regenerate test input file (testfile-ctf) > > > > Please let me know your thoughts. > > > > [...] > > > > CTF debug format was designed to be present in stripped files, so > > this section should not be removed, so a new --remove-ctf option > > is added to indicate explicitly that .ctf section will be stripped > > out from binary file. > > Sorry, I see I never reviewed this v2 variant. I know we tried to > coordinate with binutils so eu-strip and binutils strip would do the > same thing. And that Jose had an idea for a new section flag to > automatically detect what section should/shouldn't be stripped (into a > separate .debug file). What was the conclusion of that?
Any update on this? How should .ctf sections be dealt with by strip like tools? Thanks, Mark
