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Re: RFA: broken strip/objcopy
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Kai Tietz <ktietz70@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2009/4/25 Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com>:
>> H.J. Lu wrote:
>>> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Dave Korn
>>>> ?I'm still unhappy with the architecture of the whole thing. ?It is bad
>>>> enough for binutils to reach into bfd and twiddle its private bits, now bfd is
>>>> predicating its behaviour on the usage patterns of one specific client,
>>>> binutils. ?However, I see that it's not without precedent, as ld/ also does this.
>>>
>>> I am not happy the whole PE/COFF in BFD.
>>
>> ?All the more reason not to add further kludges, if we can't go forwards we
>> should at least try to avoid getting deeper in a mess.
>>
>>> Sorry, I don't have time for this.
>>
>> ?Oh well, we'll just have to pile it on the to-do list.
>>
>> ? ?cheers,
>> ? ? ?DaveK
>>
>
> Hello guys,
>
> really, I would be interested in a fix of that, as I assume Dave is
> too. This patch breaks our current toolchain and so I would like so a
> working patch for all PE-Coff targets, or that we revert the patch and
> wait until it is in more common better shape.
>
Can you try:
http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2009-04/msg00364.html
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H.J.