[RFA] Make objcopy handle core files.

Alan Modra amodra@bigpond.net.au
Mon Dec 17 19:45:00 GMT 2001


On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 03:23:32PM -0800, Michael Snyder wrote:
> 
> 	* objcopy.c (copy_file): Accept corefiles (format bfd_core).
> 	(copy_object): Don't set the start address or flags of a core file.
> 	(copy_section): Don't relocate a core file.  Don't copy contents
> 	if the input section has the contents flag set, but the output
> 	section does not (which happens with the fake 'note' pseudo-
> 	sections that BFD creates for corefiles).

OK.

> !   /* Neither the start address nor the flags 
> !      need to be set for a core file. */
> !   if (!bfd_check_format (ibfd, bfd_core))

Doesn't bfd_get_format work here?



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