X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:25:51 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Binutils objcopy bug (was Re: rebase segfault) Message-ID: <20130116162551.GE17179@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <50F516C8.9050602@gmail.com> <20130115100745.GC2353@calimero.vinschen.de> <50F5312A.2040503@gmail.com> <20130115112406.GA13752@calimero.vinschen.de> <50F5D246.6010902@gmail.com> <50F653AB.80102@gmail.com> <20130116123509.GA16991@calimero.vinschen.de> <50F6AD63.8080106@gmail.com> <20130116144211.GB17179@calimero.vinschen.de> <50F6C349.5050001@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <50F6C349.5050001@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple