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Re: timestamp in coff header breaks ld testsuite
Hi!
Friday, 09 November, 2001 Nick Clifton nickc@cambridge.redhat.com wrote:
>> that's why i thought about something like pe-tool utility so that
>> testsuite can run 'pe-tool --clear-timestamp' before comparing
>> objects.
NC> Actually this is something that it might be worth adding to objcopy,
NC> since that is the generic tool for this kind of transformation.
as far as i can see, it's currently quite target-independent (S3Force
is the only exception). all coff-specific processing seems to be done
by separate utilities. but if it's ok to include coff/internal.h and
libcoff.h in objcopy.c, then fine.
btw, what is the right place to pass backend-specific parameters from
application to bfd -- bfd->tdata or bfd->usrdata?
NC> The other alternative is to teach the ld test harness about PEI format
NC> files and when it is performing binary compares, have it skip the
NC> timestamp field.
if we'd have a portable way to determine on what offset in file this
field resides, it'd be just almost as easy to patch an object file :)
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