Re: Removing old symbols when debugging code that relocates itself

Hi Wolfgang,

On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 11:14:28PM +0200, Wolfgang Wallner via Gdb wrote:
> It seems I can only remove the symbols that I have added with
> add-symbol-file, but not the initial ones ...

Maybe you could extract the symbol file [1] and then strip it away from
the binary [2]. This way, you have to use "add-symbol-file" to add it
in different stages and according to what you say you should be able
to remove it after each adding.

Cheers,
Shahab


[1]
$ objcopy --only-keep-debug uboot.bin uboot.sym

[2]
$ objcopy --strip-all uboot.bin uboot.strp