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Re: [Bug binutils/1391] New: objcopy trashes PE executable when using "a


From: Nick Clifton
Subject: Re: [Bug binutils/1391] New: objcopy trashes PE executable when using "add-gnu-debuglink"
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:34:32 +0100
User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206)

Hi,

Idx Name          Size      VMA       LMA       File off  Algn
  0 .gnu_debuglink 00000018  00000000  00000000  00000268  2**2

When using a native win32 "PE" editor/format tool like "LordPE" it lists some
crap for the first section (containing debug link), all other sections seem ok:

Seems objcopy is messing up the PE section table while adding gnu debug link.

I seem to recall that the PE file format does not allow sections to start at address 0 and that this causes problems for debug sections.

Probably the simplest way to fix this problem is to amend the PE linker script (ld/scripttempl/pe.sc) and add an explicit entry for the .gnu_debuglink section.

If this works, please could you submit a patch so that we can apply it to the mainline sources.

Cheers
  Nick






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