Binutuls is broken now.

[DJ Delorie]

> > IMHO, changing ld to no longer allow linking a chunk of binary data
> > would be a Bad Thing.
> 
> We're *only* discussing the -r case; it sounds like you're
> meaning generally.

Some of the cases I used were with -r.  Others were with gcc's final
link (via -Wl,*).

In fact, If I had known objcopy could encapsulate a binary file, I
probably would never have used ld that way ;-)