Hi Dan,
I think that the simplest change we could make would be to have BFD
detect object files with a magic number of 0x188 and then have it
issue an error message along the lines of "please decompress this file
before passing it to BFD". What do you think ?
This makes sense, so I've attached a patch that does just this.
Let me know when/if you incorporate it to the cvs tree, and when the
patch that you proposed makes it in.
I have now checked both your patch in and mine as well.
Cheers
Nick
bfd/ChangeLog
2005-07-14 Daniel Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Nick Clifton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* coff-alpha.c (alpha_ecoff_bad_format_hook): Detect compressed
Alpha binaries and issue a helpful error message.
(alpha_ecoff_swap_reloc_out): Increase maximum allowed internal
symbol index to 15 to allow for binaries produced by DEC
compilers.
include/coff/ChangeLog
2005-07-14 Daniel Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* alpha.h (ALPHA_ECOFF_COMPRESSEDMAG): Define.
* ecoff.h (ALPHA_MAGIC_COMPRESSED): Define.
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