Re: discard a weak symbol in object file

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discard a weak symbol in object file
\ Wolfgang Haidinger (28 Jun 2006)
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Subject:	Re: discard a weak symbol in object file
Group:	Gcc-help
From:	Ian Lance Taylor
Date:	28 Jun 2006

Wolfgang Haidinger <Wolfgang.Haidinger> writes:

> I tired to remove a local symbol in an .o file by the use of:
> arm-elf-objcopy -N <symbol-name> infile.o outfile.o
>
> This works fine as long as the symbol is global (not weak nor local).
> Unfortunately objcopy provides just the conversion of symbols into weak or
> local, but no option to convert into global.
>
> Has anyone an idea how I can get rid of an unwanted symbol in an object
> file, or how I can change it to be global?

I don't know whether there is a way, but I do know that the place to
ask is not here, but at binutils; see
http://sourceware.org/binutils/

Ian