1999-10-08 Ben Elliston <bje@cygnus.com>

[deliverable/binutils-gdb.git] / binutils / objcopy.1

diff --git a/binutils/objcopy.1 b/binutils/objcopy.1
index de723f378f2cd74475a7410b0f42b26439acbfeb..b3fa296d1e9f1f9a546f134911eb4692d16e888c 100644 (file)
--- a/binutils/objcopy.1
+++ b/binutils/objcopy.1
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-.\" Copyright (c) 1991, 93, 94, 95, 96, 1997 Free Software Foundation
+.\" Copyright (c) 1991, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 1999 Free Software Foundation
 .\" See section COPYING for conditions for redistribution
-.TH objcopy 1 "October 1994" "cygnus support" "GNU Development Tools"
+.TH objcopy 1 "1999" "Cygnus Solutions" "GNU Development Tools"
 .de BP
 .sp
 .ti \-.2i
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ objcopy \- copy and translate object files
 .RB "[\|" \-F\ \fIbfdname\fR\ |\ \fB\-\-target=\fIbfdname\fR "\|]" 
 .RB "[\|" \-I\ \fIbfdname\fR\ |\ \fB\-\-input\-target=\fIbfdname\fR "\|]" 
 .RB "[\|" \-O\ \fIbfdname\fR\ |\ \fB\-\-output\-target=\fIbfdname\fR "\|]" 
+.RB "[\|" \-j\ \fIsectionname\fR\ |\ \fB\-\-only\-section=\fIsectionname\fR "\|]"
 .RB "[\|" \-R\ \fIsectionname\fR\ |\ \fB\-\-remove\-section=\fIsectionname\fR "\|]"
 .RB "[\|" \-S\fR\ |\ \fB\-\-strip\-all\fR "\|]" 
 .RB "[\|" \-g\fR\ |\ \fB\-\-strip\-debug\fR "\|]" 
@@ -123,6 +124,12 @@ Use
 as the object format for both the input and the output file; i.e.
 simply transfer data from source to destination with no translation.
 .TP
+.B \-j \fIsectionname\fR, \fB\-\-only\-section=\fIsectionname
+Copy only the named section from the input file to the output file,
+discarding all other sections.  This option may be given more than
+once.  Note that using this option inappropriately may make the output
+file unusable.
+.TP
 .B \-R \fIsectionname\fR, \fB\-\-remove-section=\fIsectionname
 Remove the named section from the file.  This option may be given more
 than once.  Note that using this option inappropriately may make the
@@ -242,9 +249,9 @@ if the named section does not exist.
 .B \fB\-\-set\-section\-flags=\fIsection=flags
 Set the flags for the named section.  The \fIflags\fP argument is a
 comma separated string of flag names.  The recognized names are
-\fIalloc\fP, \fIload\fP, \fIreadonly\fP, \fIcode\fP, \fIdata\fP, and
-\fIrom\fP.  Not all flags are meaningful for all object file
-formats.
+\fIalloc\fP, \fIcontents\fP, \fIload\fP, \fInoload\fP, \fIreadonly\fP,
+\fIcode\fP, \fIdata\fP, \fIrom\fP, \fIshare\fP, and \fIdebug\fP.  Not
+all flags are meaningful for all object file formats.
 .TP
 .B \fB\-\-add\-section=\fIsectionname=filename
 Add a new section named \fIsectionname\fR while copying the file.  The
@@ -271,7 +278,7 @@ most common symbol leading character is underscore.  This option will
 remove a leading underscore from all global symbols.  This can be
 useful if you want to link together objects of different file formats
 with different conventions for symbol names.  This is different from
-@code{--change-leading-char} because it always changes the symbol name
+\fB\-\-change\-leading\-char\fP because it always changes the symbol name
 when appropriate, regardless of the object file format of the output
 .TP
 .B \-\-weaken
@@ -301,7 +308,7 @@ The GNU Binary Utilities\c
 \&, Roland H. Pesch (June 1993).
 
 .SH COPYING
-Copyright (c) 1993, 94, 95, 96, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (c) 1993, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 .PP
 Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
 this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice