A question about objcopy

[Alan Modra]

On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 05:33:59PM +0800, He Yunlong-B20256 wrote:
> 	My question is, why objcopy must adjust vaddr of program
> headers? Is it for elf specification? (the object file should have been
> complient to ELF), or is it for program loading?

objcopy can make changes to sections, deleting, adding, changing
addresses.  In such cases the program headers must be changed too.

> 	I met one issue: one object file, which use linked as ePAPR
> fixed format, in which vaddrs should be keep unchanged. But after
> running strip, the vaddr of one program header is changed, then it
> failed to execute.

Please open a bug report and attach a file that strip breaks, and
I'll take a look at it.
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=binutils

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM