[Bug binutils/30444] Implementation of COFF/PE format lacks base64 support (Extended COFF Object)

[sven.koehler at gmail dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30444

--- Comment #13 from Sven <sven.koehler at gmail dot com> ---
(In reply to Jose E. Marchesi from comment #12)
> Ok, this is worse than I thought :)
> 
> Given the section name //AAph7S, the corresponding base64 to decode is
> 00AAph7S, _not_ AAph7S==.
> 
> Found it the hard way while implementing this in BFD.

I think you mean AAAAph7S, because in base64 the zero digit is A.

They probably replaced decimal digits with base64 digits. They did not apply
standard base64 to the binary representation of a 32bit integer.

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