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Re: bfd is broken

From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
To: Geoff Keating <geoffk at redhat dot com>
Cc: hjl at lucon dot org, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 00:25:10 +0100
Subject: Re: bfd is broken
References: <20020110182730.A12778@lucon.org> <200201110454.UAA23642@geoffk.org> <20020110230313.A16747@lucon.org> <20020111105909.B11237@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz> <200201111913.LAA24071@geoffk.org>
Reply-to: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>

On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 11:13:58AM -0800, Geoff Keating wrote:
> That makes sense.  Why do we set SEC_EXCLUDE on this section, if it
> has size 0 anyway and so wouldn't take up any space in the output?

Because bfd ATM is not able to set _cooked_size = 0 (_cooked_size == 0
means use _raw_size). It really needs to be changed soon, but it will mean
changing a lot of code.

	Jakub

References:
- bfd is broken
  - From: H . J . Lu
- Re: bfd is broken
  - From: Geoff Keating
- Re: bfd is broken
  - From: H . J . Lu
- Re: bfd is broken
  - From: Jakub Jelinek
- Re: bfd is broken
  - From: Geoff Keating

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