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Re: arm-wince-pe-size reports empty .text


Shaun Jackman <sjackman@pathwayconnect.com> writes:

> -D disassembles .rdata (even though it's meaningless), but it does not
> disassemble .text. (see below)

Hmmm, you're right, -D doesn't disassemble sections which do not have
LOAD set.  Maybe that's a bug.  It doesn't seem to match the
documentation.

> > > Why isn't .text marked as LOAD or ALLOC? This is the case
> > > for object compiled by both gas 2.11.2 and 2.14.
> > 
> > I don't know.  If you are simply using gas to assemble files generated
> > by the compiler which have no asm statements, then this is clearly a
> > bug.
> 
> The source file is just good old "Hello, world!". No magic, no inline
> assembler. Is this a binutils bug?

Almost certainly yes.

Ian


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