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Re: PATCH: Warning for unknown PE section flags.

To: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>
Subject: Re: PATCH: Warning for unknown PE section flags.
From: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
Date: 21 Feb 2001 13:06:00 -0800
Cc: hjl at valinux dot com, bgp at dumballah dot tvnet dot hu, binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
References: <3A930B1C.C09E2996@pop.tvnet.hu><20010220163852.B31792@valinux.com> <3A93FD43.D59EF642@pop.tvnet.hu><20010221102339.A18613@valinux.com><200102211928.OAA14244@envy.delorie.com><20010221113849.A20017@valinux.com><200102211942.OAA14364@envy.delorie.com>

Hi DJ

> I'm mostly worried about ld linking in objects with unknown section
> flags.  Ignoring them may not be a good idea then.

But the patch does not ignore them, it issues a warning message.

I agree that the patch as it currently stands will only issue a
warning, not an error, and so an executable image would be produced.
I think that this is a weakness of the linker, in that failures that
are acceptable for other tools (objdump, readelf, etc) are not
acceptable for the linker.  Hence my suggestion of overriding
bfd_error_handler.

Cheers
        Nick

References:
- PATCH: Warning for unknown PE section flags.
  - From: H . J . Lu
- Re: PATCH: Warning for unknown PE section flags.
  - From: DJ Delorie
- Re: PATCH: Warning for unknown PE section flags.
  - From: H . J . Lu
- Re: PATCH: Warning for unknown PE section flags.
  - From: DJ Delorie

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