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[Bug binutils/12864] strip: Broken ELF binary size explodes after stripp


From: saschpe at gmx dot de
Subject: [Bug binutils/12864] strip: Broken ELF binary size explodes after stripping
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 14:03:47 +0000

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12864

Sascha Peilicke <saschpe at gmx dot de> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
         Resolution|INVALID                     |

--- Comment #3 from Sascha Peilicke <saschpe at gmx dot de> 2011-06-09 14:03:44 
UTC ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> objcopy/strip is attempting to correct the binary for demand paged loading. 
> There should be no surprise that the layout changes.  You might argue that
> objcopy could do a better job.  That's true but I doubt anyone is interested 
> in
> enhancing objcopy for invalid binaries.
But checking each and every binary for validity first before trying to strip it
isn't the way to go either. 

In that particular case, the binary works well, can be called and does it's
job. But it doesn't seem to be a valid ELF binary, or at least not conforming
to what objcopy/strip expect.

To give you some background, this binary resulted of a (fully automated) RPM
build job, which routinely calls strip on all binaries that land in a given RPM
package. Currently, we have >10000 build jobs a day, so adding a validity check
before each strip invocation is overkill.

Reopening therefore, this clearly is a bug.

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