Re: timestamp in coff header breaks ld testsuite

[Nick Clifton <nickc at cambridge dot redhat dot com>]

Hi Egor,

> that's why i thought about something like pe-tool utility so that 
> testsuite can run 'pe-tool --clear-timestamp' before comparing
> objects.

Actually this is something that it might be worth adding to objcopy,
since that is the generic tool for this kind of transformation.

The other alternative is to teach the ld test harness about PEI format
files and when it is performing binary compares, have it skip the
timestamp field.

Cheers
        Nick