[RFD] New binutil 'objsplit'

Hans-Peter Nilsson hp@bitrange.com
Wed Apr 21 18:45:00 GMT 2004


On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Dave Korn wrote:
> By the time
> you've been working on a linker port for a week or ten days, and it's still
> mysteriously omitting random chunks of bytes from the output sections it
> generates, you start to look for a quicker approach to solving the problem
> that you originally set out to solve.....

GDB usually works for me when the mystery is repeatable. ;-)
(SCNR.)

> When you say that ar and objcopy
> could "use the same object file", do you mean that I could factor out the
> code from objcopy into a new source file and then add that source file into
> the builds for both ar and objcopy?

Yes.  Sorry for being inprecise.

brgds, H-P



More information about the Binutils mailing list