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From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-29 12:18:50


Vladimir Prus wrote:
> On Thursday 25 November 2004 02:27, Rene Rivera wrote:
>
>
>>...More specifically I mark almost everything as private in the ELF
>>objects and relink to get all those private symbols removed. I don't do
>>that in the debug so I can do symbolic debugging :-) And the regular
>>link tools, as you mention only strip the static symbols.
>
> Just curious, are you using the "version script" that the linker can use? I've
> used it in past for some special tricks, but exporting C++ symbols was pretty
> hard due to mangling.

No linker script, those things are nasty. It's very similar to what gcc
3.4 currently allows for. I mark the symbols I want to keep with
"__attribute__ ((section (".text.dll")))" in the code. Then use the list
of symbols in that code section to build the list of mangled C++ names
plus vtables and other related items with the binutils "objdump"
program. And I can further use the "objcopy" program to remove the
non-public symbols. I posted a rather long and dense description, with
part of the BBv1 script for doing it at:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=2793609&forum_id=34093

Although I've cleaned up the script somewhat since then. This bit of
custom build magic is why I haven't switched to BBv2. If you can show me
how to add such custom link steps to an existing toolset I could then
package this up and add to BBv2.

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