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RE: [RFD] New binutil 'objsplit'
- From: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp at bitrange dot com>
- To: Dave Korn <dk at artimi dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:44:59 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: RE: [RFD] New binutil 'objsplit'
- References: <NUTMEGDLMYOxZ4MWZw00000055a@NUTMEG.CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Dave Korn wrote:
> By the time
> you've been working on a linker port for a week or ten days, and it's still
> mysteriously omitting random chunks of bytes from the output sections it
> generates, you start to look for a quicker approach to solving the problem
> that you originally set out to solve.....
GDB usually works for me when the mystery is repeatable. ;-)
(SCNR.)
> When you say that ar and objcopy
> could "use the same object file", do you mean that I could factor out the
> code from objcopy into a new source file and then add that source file into
> the builds for both ar and objcopy?
Yes. Sorry for being inprecise.
brgds, H-P