From f2629855d950f42c6d6ed7132cf94dd70e308985 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Clifton Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 09:41:10 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update documentation to reflect that the symbol localization options of objcopy do not affect unique symbols. * doc/binutils.texi (objcopy): Note that the localize symbol options do not affect unique symbols. --- binutils/ChangeLog | 5 +++++ binutils/doc/binutils.texi | 5 +++-- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/binutils/ChangeLog b/binutils/ChangeLog index fed99fc9343..6346e63d52f 100644 --- a/binutils/ChangeLog +++ b/binutils/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2016-07-20 Nick Clifton + + * doc/binutils.texi (objcopy): Note that the localize symbol + options do not affect unique symbols. + 2016-07-16 Alan Modra * ar.c: Include plugin-api.h. diff --git a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi index 5a564efd665..2f4ea0a358b 100644 --- a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi +++ b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi @@ -1321,8 +1321,9 @@ such as @option{-L}. @item -L @var{symbolname} @itemx --localize-symbol=@var{symbolname} -Make symbol @var{symbolname} local to the file, so that it is not -visible externally. This option may be given more than once. +Convert a global or weak symbol called @var{symbolname} into a local +symbol, so that it is not visible externally. This option may be +given more than once. Note - unique symbols are not converted. @item -W @var{symbolname} @itemx --weaken-symbol=@var{symbolname} -- 2.30.2