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| author | Dmitriy Ivanov <dimitry@google.com> | 2015-03-26 23:49:23 +0000 |
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| committer | Gerrit Code Review <noreply-gerritcodereview@google.com> | 2015-03-26 23:49:23 +0000 |
| commit | cfd794a96d0c4f1d97e54b701b408dafdb514d17 (patch) | |
| tree | efda087ca764badef51c25bd4b9df2cf859318f8 | |
| parent | 8f3eb5a4e5dbbac1fb431e40e25eec07ecc24ee8 (diff) | |
| parent | 797bffb76095c5bf83b486579dab9db7bb4fe09e (diff) | |
| download | bionic-cfd794a96d0c4f1d97e54b701b408dafdb514d17.tar.gz | |
Merge "Explain why we need objcopy for the linker"
| -rw-r--r-- | linker/Android.mk | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/linker/Android.mk b/linker/Android.mk index 81c007f3e..5bdc2f901 100644 --- a/linker/Android.mk +++ b/linker/Android.mk @@ -70,7 +70,9 @@ LOCAL_MULTILIB := both # meaningful name resolution. LOCAL_STRIP_MODULE := keep_symbols -# Insert an extra objcopy step to add prefix to symbols. +# Insert an extra objcopy step to add prefix to symbols. This is needed to prevent gdb +# looking up symbols in the linker by mistake. +# # Note we are using "=" instead of ":=" to defer the evaluation, # because LOCAL_2ND_ARCH_VAR_PREFIX or linked_module isn't set properly yet at this point. LOCAL_POST_LINK_CMD = $(hide) $($(LOCAL_2ND_ARCH_VAR_PREFIX)TARGET_OBJCOPY) \ |