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I would like to suggest the following patch to allow a real linker version stamp into PE binaries. The version is stored in the vstamp member of AOUTHDR or equivalent MajorLinkerVersion and MinorLinkerVersion of IMAGE_OPTIONAL_HEADER. At the moment, all PE binaries are stamped with a generic "256" by BFD and have been so for a long time. This makes it impossible to judge the status of the tools that generated an unknown binary. A real stamp could help in bug tracking, security issues, debugging tools, binary information tools etc. The only problem I can see with this patch is if it clash with binutils version generation. Hope it works out. thanks Jerker Bäck
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