binutils/strip.1

   1 .\" Copyright (c) 1991 Free Software Foundation
   2 .\" See section COPYING for conditions for redistribution
   3 .\" $Id$
   4 .TH strip 1 "5 November 1991" "cygnus support" "GNU Development Tools"
   5 .de BP
   6 .sp
   7 .ti \-.2i
   8 \(**
   9 ..
  10
  11 .SH NAME
  12 strip\(em\&Discard symbols from object files.
  13
  14 .SH SYNOPSIS
  15 .hy 0
  16 .na
  17 .TP
  18 .B strip
  19 .RB "[\|" \-s | +strip-all "\|]"
  20 .RB "[\|" \-g | \-S | +strip-debug\c
  21 \|]
  22 .RB "[\|" \-x | +discard-all "\|]"
  23 .RB "[\|" \-X | +discard-locals "\|]"
  24 .RB "[\|" "\-T\ "\c
  25 .I bfdname\c
  26 \&\|]
  27 .I objfiles\c
  28 \&.\|.\|.
  29 .ad b
  30 .hy 1
  31 .SH DESCRIPTION
  32 GNU \c
  33 .B strip\c
  34 \& will discard all symbols from object files
  35 \c
  36 .I objfiles\c
  37 \&, if no options are specified; or only certain symbols,
  38 depending on its command-line options.
  39
  40 \c
  41 .B strip\c
  42 \& will not execute unless at least one object file is listed.
  43
  44 .I WARNING:\c
  45 \& \c
  46 .B strip\c
  47 \& modifies the files named in its argument,
  48 rather than writing modified copies under different names.
  49
  50 .SH OPTIONS
  51 The long and short forms of options, shown here as alternatives, are
  52 equivalent.
  53
  54 .TP
  55 .B \-s
  56 .TP
  57 .B +strip-all
  58 This is the default case: strip all symbol entries from \c
  59 .I objfiles\c
  60 \&.
  61
  62 .TP
  63 .B \-g
  64 .TP
  65 .B \-S
  66 .TP
  67 .B +strip-debug
  68 Discard only debugging symbol information from \c
  69 .I objfiles\c
  70 \&.
  71
  72 .TP
  73 .B \-x
  74 .TP
  75 .B +discard-all
  76 Discard all symbols local to each file in \c
  77 .I objfiles\c
  78 \&.
  79 \c
  80 .I WARNING:\c
  81 \& Note that \c
  82 .B +discard-all\c
  83 \& discards only \c
  84 .I local\c
  85 \&
  86 symbols, in spite of its name.
  87
  88 .TP
  89 .B \-X
  90 .TP
  91 .B +discard-locals
  92 Discard local symbols starting with `\|\c
  93 .B L\c
  94 \|' from each file in
  95 \c
  96 .I objfiles\c
  97 \&.  (Some compilers produce internally-used symbols that
  98 begin with `\|\c
  99 .B L\c
 100 \|'.)
 101
 102 .TP
 103 .BI "-T " "bfdname"\c
 104 \&
 105 You can specify a particular object-code format \c
 106 .I bfdname\c
 107 \& for
 108 \c
 109 .I objfiles\c
 110 \&.  This may not be necessary; \c
 111 .I strip\c
 112 \& can automatically
 113 recognize many formats.   for information on listing
 114 available formats.
 115 .PP
 116
 117 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 118 .RB "`\|" binutils "\|'"
 119 entry in
 120 .B
 121 info\c
 122 \&;
 123 .I
 124 The GNU Binary Utilities\c
 125 \&, Roland H. Pesch (October 1991).
 126
 127 .SH COPYING
 128 Copyright (c) 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 129 .PP
 130 Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
 131 this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice
 132 are preserved on all copies.
 133 .PP
 134 Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
 135 manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the
 136 entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a
 137 permission notice identical to this one.
 138 .PP
 139 Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this
 140 manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified
 141 versions, except that this permission notice may be included in
 142 translations approved by the Free Software Foundation instead of in
 143 the original English.