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Re: ambiguous file formats coff-x86_64 / pe-x86_64


>>> On 22.12.16 at 22:49, <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 07:43:39AM -0700, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> binary. We've now had reports that on binutils with both coff-x86_64
>> and pe-x86_64 configured in (but defaulting to ELF), linking fails due
>> to the object being ambiguous.
> 
> match_priority was invented for exactly this sort of situation.

Interesting: I don't see how that would help here, as I don't see
why (and on what basis) to "prefer" one variant over the other.
Looking over the source, at least relocation addend handling is
different between the two, and without other (sideband?) info
I don't think one can guess the format to be used. The situation
in our case is different, because we don't care which of the two
gets used, ad we don't care about their differences.

Jan


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