bfd is broken

Jakub Jelinek jakub@redhat.com
Fri Jan 11 15:38:00 GMT 2002


On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 11:13:58AM -0800, Geoff Keating wrote:
> That makes sense.  Why do we set SEC_EXCLUDE on this section, if it
> has size 0 anyway and so wouldn't take up any space in the output?

Because bfd ATM is not able to set _cooked_size = 0 (_cooked_size == 0
means use _raw_size). It really needs to be changed soon, but it will mean
changing a lot of code.

	Jakub



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