Re: BFD: include pei/coff targets in solaris/illumos platform target list

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

On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> wrote:
>
>> On 4. okt 2015, at 17:45, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> hi!
>>>
>>> as for UEFI binaries are spreading, would like to get pei/coff targets added to default list for solaris/illumos platform for bfd module as listed in this diff:
>>>
>>
>> This is what I checked into binutils master branch.
>>
>
> Thanks, just checked with this update:
>
> GNU objdump (GNU Binutils) 2.25.51.20151004
> GNU objcopy (GNU Binutils) 2.25.51.20151004
>
> do create and handle pei files:
>
> /home/tsoome/loader.efi:     file format pei-x86-64
> /home/tsoome/loader.efi
> architecture: i386:x86-64, flags 0x00000133:
> HAS_RELOC, EXEC_P, HAS_SYMS, HAS_LOCALS, D_PAGED
> start address 0x000000000000cd80
>
> Characteristics 0x206
>         executable
>         line numbers stripped
>         debugging information removed
>
> Time/Date               Thu Jan  1 03:00:00 1970
> Magic                   020b    (PE32+)
> MajorLinkerVersion      2
> MinorLinkerVersion      25
>
>
> there is one minor issue tho (not related to this update, it is there in 2.25.1 at least), this pei-x86-64 file is created with objcopy from elf file and as you see the Time/Date is not set. Not a big issue, but at least
> GNU objcopy 2.17.50 [FreeBSD] 2007-07-03
> seems to set time/date properly - it may be freebsd own patch of course.

Please file a binutils bug report.

Thanks.


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H.J.