Explain why we need objcopy for the linker

Change-Id: I646673abc6095b56f72add493b60925375b75b78
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Dmitriy Ivanov 2015-03-26 16:47:18 -07:00
parent 8f3eb5a4e5
commit 797bffb760
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@ -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) \