Hi Mark,
I am mainly wondering why binutils strip already seems to keep ".ctf" sections (even without -g).
Right. But I am wondering how that mechanism works with binutils strip. Apparently we do something different in eu-strip which makes it necessary to add a --keep-ctf option based on the section name. It would be good if we figured out how/what we can do to keep the different strip utilities in sync.
I think that the function that does this is "is_strip_section_1" in binutils/objcopy.c. If an input section has the BSF_DEBUGGING flag set (an internal flag to he BFD library, but basically it should be set for all debug sections, including .ctf sections I think), then the basic decision is to keep the section unless -g is used. Cheers Nick
