objcopy fails silently with an empty input file

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Fri Apr 15 09:13:00 GMT 2005


Hi Shaun,

> Sorry, Nick . I wasn't clear. The use case I posted was the behaviour
> that I desired, which I get with the patch I posted. With your patch,
> I see the same behaviour as you do. To clear things up, I would like
> "empty input file" to be a warning, not an error, particularly when
> the input BFD is 'binary'.

Ah - unfortunately I do not think that this is a good idea.  The input 
file could be empty for a variety of reasons - it could be a device, a 
pipe, or some other kind of system file, instead of just an ordinary, 
zero-sized file.

Besides - what is the value in creating an output file from an empty 
input file ?  What possible use can this output file have ?

Cheers
   Nick




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