objcopy fails silently with an empty input file
Shaun Jackman
sjackman@gmail.com
Tue Apr 12 23:35:00 GMT 2005
objcopy silently fails when the input file is empty. I'd rather it
didn't fail -- this used to work in previous versions -- but it
definitely shouldn't fail silently.
Cheers,
Shaun
$ arm-elf-objcopy --version | head -1
GNU objcopy 2.15
$ echo > not-empty
$ arm-elf-objcopy -Ibinary -Oelf32-little not-empty not-empty.o; echo $?
0
$ echo -n > empty
$ arm-elf-objcopy -Ibinary -Oelf32-little empty empty.o; echo $?
1
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