[Bug binutils/23947] objcopy refuses to copy !(SEC_LOAD|SEC_ALLOC) sections

[ppluzhnikov at google dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23947

Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov at google dot com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |WONTFIX

--- Comment #4 from Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov at google dot com> ---
(In reply to Nick Clifton from comment #3)
> I would like to set this PR to 
> RESOLVED/NOTABUG if you are happy with my answers.

I am not sure I agree with "NOTABUG" resolution, but since nobody is planning
to do anything about it, sure, let's close it.

I tend to think of objcopy as a general tool for "copy and translate object
files" (as it says on the can), and the current behavior of "you can
extract/copy many, but not all sections" seems exceedingly confusing and
self-inconsistent.

Thanks for the --set-section-flags workaround.

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