[RFA] Make objcopy handle core files.
Michael Snyder
msnyder@cygnus.com
Wed Dec 19 19:20:00 GMT 2001
Alan Modra wrote:
>
> Hi Michael,
> I notice that objcopy on corefiles creates section headers where none
> existed before. Perhaps that can be viewed as a feature rather than
> a bug, but it's a little disconcerting to find that
>
> objcopy core1 core2
>
> results in files that aren't even the same size. I'm not too worried,
> but a small note in binutils.texi would be good.
Er, not wishing to seem lazy, but you probably understand the issue
much better than I do. I'm stumbling around blindly in here. Perhaps
it would be better if you wrote the small note?
>
> --
> Alan Modra
>
> core1:
> Size of program headers: 32 (bytes)
> Number of program headers: 14
> Size of section headers: 0 (bytes)
> Number of section headers: 0
> Section header string table index: 0
>
> core2:
> Size of program headers: 32 (bytes)
> Number of program headers: 14
> Size of section headers: 40 (bytes)
> Number of section headers: 20
> Section header string table index: 19
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