objcopy/strip: Allow section patterns starting with '!'.

[deliverable/binutils-gdb.git] / binutils / doc / binutils.texi

diff --git a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi
index 5a004a34ec9b82479e057ace995a0d7c1a1bb9da..d77bc86b0f431ea3524043457728e364138475ce 100644 (file)
--- a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi
+++ b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi
@@ -1221,6 +1221,18 @@ This option may be given more than once.  Note that using this option
 inappropriately may make the output file unusable.  Wildcard
 characters are accepted in @var{sectionpattern}.
 
+If the first character of @var{sectionpattern} is the exclamation
+point (!) then matching sections will not be copied, even if earlier
+use of @option{--only-section} on the same command line would
+otherwise copy it.  For example:
+
+@smallexample
+  --only-section=.text.* --only-section=!.text.foo
+@end smallexample
+
+will copy all sectinos maching '.text.*' but not the section
+'.text.foo'.
+
 @item -R @var{sectionpattern}
 @itemx --remove-section=@var{sectionpattern}
 Remove any section matching @var{sectionpattern} from the output file.
@@ -1230,6 +1242,18 @@ characters are accepted in @var{sectionpattern}.  Using both the
 @option{-j} and @option{-R} options together results in undefined
 behaviour.
 
+If the first character of @var{sectionpattern} is the exclamation
+point (!) then matching sections will not be removed even if an
+earlier use of @option{--remove-section} on the same command line
+would otherwise remove it.  For example:
+
+@smallexample
+  --remove-section=.text.* --remove-section=!.text.foo
+@end smallexample
+
+will remove all sections matching the pattern '.text.*', but will not
+remove the section '.text.foo'.
+
 @item -S
 @itemx --strip-all
 Do not copy relocation and symbol information from the source file.
@@ -3021,6 +3045,18 @@ inappropriately may make the output file unusable.  The wildcard
 character @samp{*} may be given at the end of @var{sectionname}.  If
 so, then any section starting with @var{sectionname} will be removed.
 
+If the first character of @var{sectionpattern} is the exclamation
+point (!) then matching sections will not be removed even if an
+earlier use of @option{--remove-section} on the same command line
+would otherwise remove it.  For example:
+
+@smallexample
+  --remove-section=.text.* --remove-section=!.text.foo
+@end smallexample
+
+will remove all sections matching the pattern '.text.*', but will not
+remove the section '.text.foo'.
+
 @item -s
 @itemx --strip-all
 Remove all symbols.