On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 09:32 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
I don't see any reason to treat nonstandard section types
specially at all.
The norm is to strip non-allocated sections. We have special exceptions
for SHT_NOTE and a few named SHT_PROGBITS sections that particularly should
not be stripped. If there are any nonstandard types that should not be
stripped, then we can add special cases for those.
Unless anyone can cite a good reason not to, I'll just remove the
< SHT_NUM check entirely.
I cannot think of a good reason not to. Except that there might be
unknown arch specific section types that need special handling because
they aren't marked SHF_ALLOC but still cannot be stripped. But like you
said, lets add explicit special cases for them if they do pop up.
Cheers,
Mark