binutils/strip.1

   1 .\" Copyright (c) 1991 Free Software Foundation
   2 .\" See section COPYING for conditions for redistribution
   3 .TH strip 1 "5 November 1991" "cygnus support" "GNU Development Tools"
   4 .de BP
   5 .sp
   6 .ti \-.2i
   7 \(**
   8 ..
   9
  10 .SH NAME
  11 strip \- Discard symbols from object files.
  12
  13 .SH SYNOPSIS
  14 .hy 0
  15 .na
  16 .TP
  17 .B strip
  18 .RB "[\|" \-F \fIbfdname\fP\ |\ \-\-target=\fIbfdname\fP "\|]"
  19 .RB "[\|" \-I \fIbfdname\fP\ |\ \-\-input\-target=\fIbfdname\fP "\|]"
  20 .RB "[\|" \-O \fIbfdname\fP\ |\ \-\-output\-target=\fIbfdname\fP "\|]"
  21 .RB "[\|" \-R \fIsectionname\fP\ |\ \-\-remove\-section=\fIsectionname\fP "\|]"
  22 .RB "[\|" \-s | \-\-strip\-all "\|]"
  23 .RB "[\|" \-S | -g | \-\-strip\-debug "\|]"
  24 .RB "[\|" \-x | \-\-discard\-all "\|]"
  25 .RB "[\|" \-X | \-\-discard\-locals "\|]"
  26 .RB "[\|" \-v | \-\-verbose "\|]"
  27 .RB "[\|" \-V | \-\-version "\|]"
  28 .RB "[\|" \-V | \-\-help "\|]"
  29 .I objfile\c
  30 \&.\|.\|.
  31
  32 .SH DESCRIPTION
  33 GNU
  34 .B strip
  35 discards all symbols from the object files
  36 .IR objfile .
  37 The list of object files may include archives.
  38 At least one object file must be given.
  39
  40 .P
  41 .B strip
  42 modifies the files named in its argument,
  43 rather than writing modified copies under different names.
  44
  45 .SH OPTIONS
  46 .TP
  47 .B "\-F \fIbfdname"
  48 .TP
  49 .B "\-\-target=\fIbfdname"
  50 Treat the original \fIobjfile\fP as a file with the object
  51 code format \fIbfdname\fP, and rewrite it in the same format.
  52
  53 .TP
  54 .B \-\-help
  55 Show a summary of the options to
  56 .B strip
  57 and exit.
  58
  59 .TP
  60 .B "\-I \fIbfdname
  61 .TP
  62 .B "\-\-input\-target=\fIbfdname"
  63 Treat the original \fIobjfile\fP as a file with the object
  64 code format \fIbfdname\fP.
  65
  66 .TP
  67 .B "\-O \fIbfdname\fP"
  68 .TP
  69 .B "\-\-output\-target=\fIbfdname"
  70 Replace \fIobjfile\fP with a file in the output format \fIbfdname\fP.
  71
  72 .TP
  73 .B "\-R \fIsectionname\fP"
  74 .TP
  75 .B "\-\-remove\-section=\fIsectionname"
  76 Remove the named section from the file.  This option may be given more
  77 than once.  Note that using this option inappropriately may make the
  78 object file unusable.
  79
  80 .TP
  81 .B \-s
  82 .TP
  83 .B \-\-strip\-all
  84 Remove all symbols.
  85
  86 .TP
  87 .B \-S
  88 .TP
  89 .B -g
  90 .TP
  91 .B \-\-strip\-debug
  92 Remove debugging symbols only.
  93
  94 .TP
  95 .B \-x
  96 .TP
  97 .B \-\-discard\-all
  98 Remove non-global symbols.
  99
 100 .TP
 101 .B "\-X \-\-discard\-locals"
 102 Remove compiler-generated local symbols.
 103 (These usually start with ``L'' or ``.''.)
 104
 105 .TP
 106 .B \-v
 107 .TP
 108 .B \-\-verbose
 109 Verbose output: list all object files modified.  In the case of
 110 archives,
 111 .B "strip \-V"
 112 lists all members of the archive.
 113
 114 .TP
 115 .B \-V
 116 .TP
 117 .B \-\-version
 118 Show the version number for \fBstrip\fP and exit.
 119
 120 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 121 .RB "`\|" binutils "\|'"
 122 entry in
 123 .BR info ;
 124 .IR "The GNU Binary Utilities ,
 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.