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Re: RFA: broken strip/objcopy


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.

Cheers,
Kai

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