possible objcopy misfeature

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Matthew,

: Hello.  I'm not sure whether or not I've found a bug in the GNU
: binutils, so I will quickly pose my question here.
:
: I'm using the latest ports of objcopy (on several platforms) to
: convert a raw binary file to an object file that can be linked into
: a gcc program. 
: 
: $ objcopy -v -I binary -O coff-go32 input.bin output.o
: > copy from input.bin(binary) to output.o(coff-go32)
: > Warning: Output file cannot represent architecture UNKNOWN!
: $ nm output.o
: > c:/djgpp/bin/nm.exe: output.o: File format not recognized
: 
: My question is: Is the arm-elf version of objcopy/binutils broken
: here, or are all the others?  If so, what is the nature of the fix? 

This sounds very much like the problem that was addressed by a patch
submitted by Stefan Geuken.  The patch can be found at:

  http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2001-02/msg00381.html

The patch has not gone into the sources yet, but you may be able to
make use of it in your own copy of the sources.

Cheers
	Nick