[Bug binutils/18087] objcopy --compress-debug-sections can produce broken debug sections in PE binaries

[jon.turney at dronecode dot org.uk]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18087

--- Comment #6 from Jon TURNEY <jon.turney at dronecode dot org.uk> ---
(In reply to Nick Clifton from comment #5)

Thanks for taking a look.

>   Your patch is good, but it misses a couple of points:
> 
>   * A change similar to the one in coffgen.c is needed in elf.c for ELF
> based targets.

I thought I had done that.

>   * The assembler needs to be updated as well so that it's
> --compress-debug-sections option only compresses when it is effective.
>
>    * The documentation needs to be updated to explicitly mention that
> compression only happens when it is worthwhile.
> 
> 
> I have uploaded an extended version of your patch which should handle these
> points.  Please could you try it out and let me know if it works for you.

This seems to work fine.

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