objcopy/strip problem on MIPS (2.10)

[Peter Fales]

Hello,

I reported this problem to bug-gnu-utils, but I thought I would try it here
also...

When a file is stripped with the 2.10 strip command, it creates invalid
binaries.  (Under irix-6.2, and 6.3, the binaries actually crash the system!!
Under 6.5, they just dump core.)

The problem does not occur with strip from binutils-2.9.1, and the main 
difference that we see is that 2.10 is removing the .MIPS.options section
from the file.  We created a simple hello-world C program and ran the following
tests.

Test:						Result:

strip foo (2.9.1)				No problems
strip foo (2.10)				System crashes
objcopy foo foo-new (2.9.1)			No problems
objcopy foo foo-new (2.10)			System crashes
objcopy --remove-section=.MIPS.options (2.9.1)	System crashes 

In each of the failure conditions, the .MIPS.options section was
missing from the output file.

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