GNU strip discards all symbols from object files
objfile. The list of object files may include archives.
At least one object file must be given.
strip modifies the files named in its argument,
rather than writing modified copies under different names.
OPTIONS
-Fbfdname
--target=bfdname
Treat the original objfile as a file with the object
code format bfdname, and rewrite it in the same format.
--help
Show a summary of the options to strip and exit.
--info
Display a list showing all architectures and object formats available.
-Ibfdname
--input-target=bfdname
Treat the original objfile as a file with the object
code format bfdname.
-Obfdname
--output-target=bfdname
Replace objfile with a file in the output format bfdname.
-Rsectionname
--remove-section=sectionname
Remove any section named sectionname from the output file. This
option may be given more than once. Note that using this option
inappropriately may make the output file unusable.
-s
--strip-all
Remove all symbols.
-g
-S
-d
--strip-debug
Remove debugging symbols only.
--strip-unneeded
Remove all symbols that are not needed for relocation processing.
-Ksymbolname
--keep-symbol=symbolname
When stripping symbols, keep symbol symbolname even if it would
normally be stripped. This option may be given more than once.
-Nsymbolname
--strip-symbol=symbolname
Remove symbol symbolname from the source file. This option may be
given more than once, and may be combined with strip options other than
-K.
-ofile
Put the stripped output in file, rather than replacing the
existing file. When this argument is used, only one objfile
argument may be specified.
-p
--preserve-dates
Preserve the access and modification dates of the file.
-w
--wildcard
Permit regular expressions in symbolnames used in other command
line options. The question mark (?), asterisk (*), backslash (\) and
square brackets ([]) operators can be used anywhere in the symbol
name. If the first character of the symbol name is the exclamation
point (!) then the sense of the switch is reversed for that symbol.
For example:
-w -K !foo -K fo*
would cause strip to only keep symbols that start with the letters
``fo'', but to discard the symbol ``foo''.
-x
--discard-all
Remove non-global symbols.
-X
--discard-locals
Remove compiler-generated local symbols.
(These usually start with L or ..)
--keep-file-symbols
When stripping a file, perhaps with --strip-debug or
--strip-unneeded, retain any symbols specifying source file names,
which would otherwise get stripped.
--only-keep-debug
Strip a file, removing any sections that would be stripped by
--strip-debug and leaving the debugging sections.
The intention is that this option will be used in conjunction with
--add-gnu-debuglink to create a two part executable. One a
stripped binary which will occupy less space in RAM and in a
distribution and the second a debugging information file which is only
needed if debugging abilities are required. The suggested procedure
to create these files is as follows:
1.<Link the executable as normal. Assuming that is is called>
"foo" then...
1.<Run objcopy --only-keep-debug foo foo.dbg to>
create a file containing the debugging info.
1.<Run objcopy --strip-debug foo to create a>
stripped executable.
1.<Run objcopy --add-gnu-debuglink=foo.dbg foo>
to add a link to the debugging info into the stripped executable.
Note - the choice of ".dbg" as an extension for the debug info
file is arbitrary. Also the "--only-keep-debug" step is
optional. You could instead do this:
1.<Link the executable as normal.>
1.<Copy foo to foo.full>
1.<Run strip --strip-debug foo>
1.<Run objcopy --add-gnu-debuglink=foo.full foo>
ie the file pointed to by the --add-gnu-debuglink can be the
full executable. It does not have to be a file created by the
--only-keep-debug switch.
Note - this switch is only intended for use on fully linked files. It
does not make sense to use it on object files where the debugging
information may be incomplete. Besides the gnu_debuglink feature
currently only supports the presence of one filename containing
debugging information, not multiple filenames on a one-per-object-file
basis.
-V
--version
Show the version number for strip.
-v
--verbose
Verbose output: list all object files modified. In the case of
archives, strip -v lists all members of the archive.
@file
Read command-line options from file. The options read are
inserted in place of the original @file option. If file
does not exist, or cannot be read, then the option will be treated
literally, and not removed.
Options in file are separated by whitespace. A whitespace
character may be included in an option by surrounding the entire
option in either single or double quotes. Any character (including a
backslash) may be included by prefixing the character to be included
with a backslash. The file may itself contain additional
@file options; any such options will be processed recursively.
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