Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 08:12:28 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: "Matthew Conte" <zeus AT nofrendo DOT org>
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> From: "Matthew Conte" <zeus AT nofrendo DOT org>
> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 23:17:42 -0500
> 
> No, no I don't.  The first two bytes are not $014c, they are $0000.  That's
> a Bad Thing.  And what do you know, changing them to the correct COFF magic
> number makes everything work correctly.
> 
> This same problem also happens with sparC and elf32-i386.

Didn't you say that it worked for you on some ELF system?  I thought
it _was_ elf32-i386, no?

Anyway, this looks like a simple bug (or maybe misfeature) in
Binutils.  It should be a relatively simple matter to find in the
source of objcopy where does it fail to output the signature.  I will
try to look into that when I have time, unless someone else does it
sooner.

> Eli, do you have a "hotter" connection into binutils development that could
> raise interest about this bug?

No, I don't have any special relationship with them.  I'd imagine
that, if you told there the COFF signature is missing, that would be
specific enough to draw someone's attention.