Re: RFA: broken strip/objcopy

[Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>]

H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 6:00 AM, Kai Tietz <ktietz70@googlemail.com> wrote:

>> 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?
> 

  It doesn't work on i686-pc-cygwin either.  I just updated a cvs tree and
rebuilt it, and now I see:

                === binutils tests ===

-Version /gnu/binutils/obj/binutils/objcopy 2.19.51.20090421
+Version /gnu/binutils/obj/binutils/objcopy 2.19.51.20090424
+FAIL: run objcopy of executable
+FAIL: run stripped executable
+FAIL: run stripped executable with saving a symbol

                === binutils Summary ===

-# of expected passes           92
+# of expected passes           89
+# of unexpected failures       3
 # of expected failures         1
 # of unsupported tests         2

                === ld tests ===

+FAIL: bootstrap with strip

                === ld Summary ===

-# of expected passes           79
-# of unexpected failures       1
+# of expected passes           77
+# of unexpected failures       3
 # of expected failures         7
 # of unsupported tests         2
-/gnu/binutils/obj/ld/ld-new 2.19.51.20090421
+/gnu/binutils/obj/ld/ld-new 2.19.51.20090424


  After reverting your bfd-pei-page-2.patch, these FAILs disappear.

    cheers,
      DaveK