RE: [RFD] New binutil 'objsplit'

["Dave Korn" <dk at artimi dot com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hans-Peter Nilsson 
> Sent: 21 April 2004 19:45

> On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Dave Korn wrote:
> > By the time
> > you've been working on a linker port for a week or ten 
> days, and it's still
> > mysteriously omitting random chunks of bytes from the 
> output sections it
> > generates, you start to look for a quicker approach to 
> solving the problem
> > that you originally set out to solve.....
> 
> GDB usually works for me when the mystery is repeatable. ;-)
> (SCNR.)

  Yeh; as I intimated, it was just time pressure at work that made me drop
my first approach and look for a QAD hack.

> > When you say that ar and objcopy
> > could "use the same object file", do you mean that I could 
> factor out the
> > code from objcopy into a new source file and then add that 
> source file into
> > the builds for both ar and objcopy?
> 
> Yes.  Sorry for being inprecise.

  <g> There's really no need whatsoever to apologise for pointing out an
obvious solution that I'd completely overlooked!



    cheers, 
      DaveK
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