--only-keep-debug produces a debug file as the output that only
preserves contents of sections useful for debugging purposes (the
binutils implementation preserves SHT_NOTE and non-SHF_ALLOC sections),
by changing their section types to SHT_NOBITS and rewritting file
offsets.
See https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Separate-Debug-Files.html
The intended use case is:
```
llvm-objcopy --only-keep-debug a a.dbg
llvm-objcopy --strip-debug a b
llvm-objcopy --add-gnu-debuglink=a.dbg b
```
The current layout algorithm is incapable of deleting contents and
shrinking segments, so it is not suitable for implementing the
functionality.
This patch adds a new algorithm which assigns sh_offset to sections
first, then modifies p_offset/p_filesz of program headers. It bears a
resemblance to lld/ELF/Writer.cpp.
Reviewed By: jhenderson, jakehehrlich
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D67137
This works around a bug in Debian's patchset for glibc. The bug is
described in detail in the upstream debian bug:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=943798, but the short
version of it is that glibc on any Debian based distro don't load
libraries unless it has a .ARM.attribute section.
Reviewed by: jhenderson, rupprecht, MaskRay, jakehehrlich
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D69188
Patch by Tobias Hieta.
Summary: GNU objcopy accepts the --wildcard flag to allow wildcard matching on symbol-related flags. (Note: it's implicitly true for section flags).
The basic syntax is to allow *, ?, \, and [] which work similarly to how they work in a shell. Additionally, starting a wildcard with ! causes that wildcard to prevent it from matching a flag.
Use an updated GlobPattern in libSupport to handle these patterns. It does not fully match the `fnmatch` used by GNU objcopy since named character classes (e.g. `[[:digit:]]`) are not supported, but this should support most existing use cases (mostly just `*` is what's used anyway).
Reviewers: jhenderson, MaskRay, evgeny777, espindola, alexshap
Reviewed By: MaskRay
Subscribers: nickdesaulniers, emaste, arichardson, hiraditya, jakehehrlich, abrachet, seiya, llvm-commits
Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D66613
llvm-svn: 375169
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