On 25/05/05, Dave Korn wrote: > ----Original Message---- > >From: Lev Bishop > >Sent: 25 May 2005 11:54
> Yow. So you copy it from a PE to an ELF, and then back to PE? You very > much need to read the section on canonicalisation in the bfd section of the > ld manual. "info ld" then search for "BFD information loss". Yeah, I saw that. I wasn't really expecting the exe to still run after this or anything, just that it would be something I could get a reliable fingerprint from. In fact the reason I was doing this is that I *wanted* to lose information (the date/time field in particular). > > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > > > > This happens with the new binutils and also the previous version. > > Yup, so something vital didn't get carried over to the ELF format, or > didn't get converted back. To be expected really. Well, I wasn't really expecting it to work, just stabbing in the dark. However, from the binutils info file "Bug Criteria" section: ] If you are not sure whether you have found a bug, here are some ] guidelines: ] ] * If a binary utility gets a fatal signal, for any input whatever, ] that is a bug. Reliable utilities never crash. And from the "Bug Reporting" section: ] A number of companies and individuals offer support for GNU ] products. If you obtained the binary utilities from a support ] organization, we recommend you contact that organization first. I assumed "support organization"==Cygwin, and thought I'd better be a good citizen and mention the crash. Anyway, thanks DaveK for the hint to look at the gcc bootstrap files. Lev -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
