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Authored by emaste on Nov 20 2015, 9:46 PM.
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When converting from binary to ELF, elfcopy creates symbols _binary_<filename>_start_, _binary_<filename>_end, and _binary_<filename>_size. For compatibility with GNU objcopy (and to produce sensible symbol names) the extension must be stripped off.

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emaste retitled this revision from to elfcopy: exclude extension when converting from binary.
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looks good to me. At least one test I ran with this a few weeks ago worked.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Dec 7 2015, 8:12 PM
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