Re: arm-wince-pe-size reports empty .text

[Shaun Jackman <sjackman at pathwayconnect dot com>]

On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 14:44, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Shaun Jackman <sjackman@pathwayconnect.com> writes:
> 
> > Can I force objdump to disassemble .text even though it's not marked as
> > LOAD or ALLOC?
> 
> Yes.  Use the -D or --disassemble-all option.

-D disassembles .rdata (even though it's meaningless), but it does not
disassemble .text. (see below)

> > Why isn't .text marked as LOAD or ALLOC? This is the case
> > for object compiled by both gas 2.11.2 and 2.14.
> 
> I don't know.  If you are simply using gas to assemble files generated
> by the compiler which have no asm statements, then this is clearly a
> bug.

The source file is just good old "Hello, world!". No magic, no inline
assembler. Is this a binutils bug?

Cheers,
Shaun


$ arm-wince-pe-objdump -D hello.o
                                                                                
hello.o:     file format pe-arm-little
 
Disassembly of section .rdata:
 
00000000 <LC0>:
   0:   6c6c6548        cfstr64vs       mvdx6, [ip], -#288
   4:   77202c6f        strvc   r2, [r0, -pc, ror #24]!
   8:   646c726f        strvsbt r7, [ip], -#623
   c:   00000021        andeq   r0, r0, r1, lsr #32