[PATCH] ELF: Properly copy and strip Solaris binaries

Rainer Orth ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE
Tue Jan 27 19:04:41 GMT 2026


Hi Alan,

> The following is what is left over from
> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2025-December/146789.html
>
> Please cast your eye over this HJ, it is mostly your patch.  Rainer,
> if you commit your ld_supports_emul patch soon I'll update the
> "ld -V -m" here before committing.

done now.

Just a few comments and questions on the patch:

* The ChangeLog should refer to PR binutils/33718 so the commit shows up
  in there

* I wonder why neither the PR nor the patch refer to the extensive
  discussion of the issue in PR binutils/33684 which prompted this PR
  and patch.

* Neither the patch names nor the filenames carry any meaning.  I think
  they should be way more descriptive instead.

* Besides, I wonder about dropping arbitrary objects into the testsuite.
  I suspect it would be way better to rely on native testing for issues
  like this, so we could both extend testing to all of Solaris/SPARC and
  x86, 32 and 64-bit.  Besides, it would be possible to run elfdump >
  /dev/null on the objects which is an excellent first sanity check for
  all kinds of objects on Solaris.

  After all, we're just one PR away from clean Solaris testresults as a
  prerequisite for setting up such bots :-)

	Rainer

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