binutils 2.14a 32-bit ARM PE/COFF as section flags

[Paul Edwards]

Attachment attached as mentioned ...

On Tue, 21 May 2024 at 13:36, Paul Edwards <mutazilah@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 20 May 2024 at 23:20, Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Paul,
> >
> > > I'm not sure if this is a bug or something I did wrong
> > > in my manual configuration or other mods, and I know
> > > that binutils 2.14a is long out of support,
> >
> > Wow - OK, 2.14 is very very old.
>
> Hi Nick.
>
> On the subject of "very old" - your reply is 2 months old - I had
> long forgotten the details and environment and moved on. But
> with the assistance of the person I was working with, I have
> managed to recreate the test case you asked for.
>
> > > "as" doesn't seem to set the section flags properly
> > > on object code properly, e.g. DATA is not being marked
> > > as DATA, possibly because it is not, or may not be,
> > > exclusively data, from the assembler's perpective.
> >
> > Do you have a test case that demonstrates this ?
> >
> > I would like to think that this is a fixed bug, but it
> > would be good to be able to check and make sure.
>
> If you look at out.txt in the attached nick.zip you will see:
>
> Wrong are the lines 58 and 60. .text should have section flags
> "CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, READONLY, CODE", not just "CONTENTS,
> RELOC", and .data should have flags "CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC,
> DATA", not just "CONTENTS, RELOC".
>
>
> Commands used are in doit.txt
>
> Change as-pdos to whatever your ARM32 COFF/PE is called. Ditto objdump.
>
> Actually, in case attachments don't get through, I have uploaded
> http://pdos.org/nick.zip
>
> and I will do the attachment in a separate message.
>
> BFN. Paul.
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