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Re: segfault in bfd with large static binary
On Wednesday 01 February 2006 21:51, H. J. Lu wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 09:47:32PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Wednesday 01 February 2006 21:44, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > > I don't think
> > >
> > > http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2006-02/msg00016.html
> > >
> > > is correct. That part of code is for linker only. strip/objcopy should
> > > never reach it. The bug is elsewhere.
> >
> > with that patch by Nick, `strip` didnt segfault ...
>
> It just papers over the real problem. If you check the ELF program
> header of the stripped executable, it may look odd.
you know better than i ... my point was simply that the code is reached by
strip ...
-mike