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Re: Binutils objcopy bug (was Re: rebase segfault)


On Jan 16 16:12, marco atzeri wrote:
> On 1/16/2013 3:42 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> >
> >I forgot to mention, the --long-section-names enable option was
> >never default, apparently.  This would have to be fixed in cygport,
> >I guess.
> 
> The default seems to keep previous value, but
> as ".gnu_debuglink" is a long name at list in that
> case should be the default of objcopy to use it.
> 
> I noticed during my tests:
> the build version have long names (.debug_aranges, .debug_loc ..)
> the stripped version usually not (.text, .rdata, .reloc ..)
> But, there is a field somewhere in the exe format
> about long-section-names ? If so,  is it incorrectly filled by some
> other utility ?

There's no such field.  Of course you could argue that it's a bug
in objcopy nevertheless.  If the user specifies a long section name
on the command line, why does objcopy not preserve it by default?


Corinna

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