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the symbol name. If the first character of the symbol name is the exclamation point (!) then the
sense of the switch is reversed for that symbol. For example:
-w -W !foo -W fo*
would cause objcopy to weaken all symbols that start with "fo" except for the symbol "foo".
-x
-discard-all
Do not copy non-global symbols from the source file.
-X
-discard-locals
Do not copy compiler-generated local symbols. (These usually start with
-b
byte
-byte=
byte
Keep only every
range from 0 to
or the default of 4. This option is useful for creating files to program rom. It is typically used with
an output target.
srec
-i
interleave
-interleave=
interleave
Only copy one out of every
option. The default is 4.
-p
-preserve-dates
Set the access and modification dates of the output file to be the same as those of the input file.
-debugging
Convert debugging information, if possible. This is not the default because only certain debug-
ging formats are supported, and the conversion process can be time consuming.
-gap-fill
val
Fill gaps between sections with
sections. It is done by increasing the size of the section with the lower address, and filling in the
extra space created with
-pad-to
address
Pad the output file up to the load address
section. The extra space is filled in with the value specified by
-set-start
val
Set the start address of the new file to
address.
-change-start
incr
-adjust-start
incr
Change the start address by adding
address.
th byte of the input file (header data is not affected).
byte
-1, where
interleave
interleave
ignores this option if you do not specify either
objcopy
val
.
val
is given by the
interleave
bytes. Select which byte to copy with the
. This operation applies to the load address (LMA) of the
. This is done by increasing the size of the last
address
. Not all object file formats support setting the start
val
. Not all object file formats support setting the start
incr
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can be in the
byte
or
-i -interleave
-b
(default zero).
-gap-fill
option,
or
-b -byte
or .
-byte