Re: RFA: broken strip/objcopy

["H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 6:00 AM, Kai Tietz <ktietz70@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 2009/4/24 Kai Tietz <ktietz70@googlemail.com>:
>> Hello,
>>
>> The current implementation of objcopy/strip in binutils has problems,
>> because for pe-coff targets. It assumes at the moment that it is an
>> i386 version. This leads to issues (especially on strip) for PE+
>> target that binaries are getting corrupted. So I think we have here to
>> move those target specific pe-coff parts into seperate files. (I
>> assume that possibly for othe pe-coff targets then i386 the same
>> problem exists). Of course we could use here target specific macros to
>> change internal structures, but for a mulilib version of them this
>> isn't suitable anymore.
>> So possible somebody of you have a strong opinion about how this issue
>> could be solved. I'll prepare a patch for it and post it soon.
>
> Ah, I found the major issue here
>
> 2009-04-17 ?H.J. Lu ?<hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
>
> ? ? ? ?PR binutils/10074
>
> This patch made objcopy and strip for PE-Coff target 32-bit PE only

I am trying to understand where the problem is. pe->pe_opthdr is
supposed to target independent. Why doesn't it work for w64?

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H.J.