MIPS, strip --only-keep-debug & an infinite loop

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Mark Kettenis wrote:

> This is all caused by the fact that `strip --only-keep-debug' doesn't
> really completely strip out the .MIPS.options section.  Instead, it
> sets the on-disk size of the section to 0 and strips the data from the
> file.  This makes BFD replace the contents with all zeroes when we try
> to read them, which in turn causes INTOPT.SIZE = 0 in the loop
> mentioned above.

 Hmm, it looks like a problem with "strip" in the first place -- 
".MIPS.options" isn't meant to be touched by that tool.

  Maciej