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[Bug gdb/14704] GDB fails to decompress relocatable files


http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14704

--- Comment #5 from H.J. Lu <hjl.tools at gmail dot com> 2012-10-15 20:49:47 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #3)
>
> Maybe having gdb set BFD_DECOMPRESS is the right thing to do.
> It is not clear to me; BFD says that this is "for BFD use only",
> but then I see uses of it in ld and binutils.
> 

It means BFD_DECOMPRESS is used by BFD, not used to describe
the input file:

binutils/objdump.c:  printf (_("flags 0x%08x:\n"), abfd->flags &
~BFD_FLAGS_FOR_BFD_USE_MASK);

We don't want to display those bits in objdump.

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