[Bug binutils/29737] strip: section attributes to indicate strip or persistent sections

[guillermo.e.martinez at oracle dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29737

--- Comment #9 from Guillermo E. Martinez <guillermo.e.martinez at oracle dot 
com> ---
(In reply to Nick Clifton from comment #8)

Hello Nick,

> Sorry - I do not think that this is going to happen.
> 

OK. I see, but I made a really big mistake because my original perception was
that eu-strip removes .ctf section, but it doesn't, because it doesn't have a
"debug" section name. 

> Using section flags has been vetoed because there are too many different
> ways to strip a binary, and not enough flags to encompass them all.
> 

Even though, if we want remove by default a section, it should be specially
named (`dwarf_scn_names').

> Using extended section types might help, but even then you need to persuade
> the maintainers of all the different strip tools to agree on which section
> types map to which stripping modes.  Plus when new section types are added
> you have to go through the whole process again.
> 
> All of the strip tools do provide mechanisms for explicitly specifying which
> sections should be removed, so for now that will have to do.

OK, good.

Thanks, and sorry for my misunderstanding.
guillermo

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