[PATCH] D46341: [llvm-objcopy] Add --discard-all (-x) option

[James Henderson via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

jhenderson added inline comments.


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Comment at: tools/llvm-objcopy/Opts.td:76
+def discard_all : Flag<["-", "--"], "discard-all">,
+                      HelpText<"Remove all non-global symbols">;
+def x : Flag<["-"], "x">,
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paulsemel wrote:
> jhenderson wrote:
> > I know this is what gnu objcopy says, but non-global means not STB_GLOBAL to me, but it doesn't affect some other symbol types either (i.e. STB_WEAK, STT_FILE, STT_SECTION). Could you change the help text to match what it actually does, please.
> Yes, I know, this is a really bad help text. But I was out of ideas, as the real behavior of this option is really tricky... Any thoughts about it guys ?
> I was thinking of  "Remove all but file and section local symbols" , but even for me that sounds really bad to my ears, so..
How about "remove all local symbols except file and section symbols"? Similar to yours but feels a little less clunky.


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https://reviews.llvm.org/D46341