[PATCH/PING all PE target maintainers] Disallow long COFF section names in PE executable image files.

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Dave,

> Would we like this behaviour to be controlled by a
> command-line flag, rather than just forcefully disabled?

Yes. :-)

>     Anyway, that's a bit more work than doing it the crude way, so I'd 
> like to canvass some idea of the interest before getting too far into it.

No one should be afraid of hard work. :-)

The tools definitely should conform to the spec, so I think that whilst 
having the current behaviour available as a feature is a good idea, the 
default should be to disable the presence of long names (and the string 
table) in PE executables.

Cheers
   Nick