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Re: BUG: Binutils strip corrupts dll files when using cygwin 1.5.18 and latest snapshot (20051103)
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According to Corinna Vinschen on 11/4/2005 6:11 AM:
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> The problem is that there's one section in the file, .gnu_debuglink,
> which is defined as a debugging section. strip's job is to remove all
> debug sections. This is usually a simple job to do since the debug
> sections are typically at the end of the file anyway. Not so the
> .gnu_debuglink section. By stripping this out, strip generates an
> invalid PE/COFF file since it leaves an undefined memory hole in the
> address space of the file, which is a no-no with the somewhat overly
> simple Windows runtime loader.
Wow. Learn something every day. No wonder ELF is so much more popular in
the open source community.
>
> It's an unlucky case. You could argue that strip should know better
> than to remove debug sections from the middle of a PE/COFF file but
> OTOH the Cygwin DLL is a very special case.
So the cygwin DLL is likely to be the only PE/COFF dll that strip ever
encounters with a section marked as debug in the middle of a file? If it
is ever expected that other DLLs will have the same property, then yes,
strip should be taught to not strip intermediate debug sections; but if it
is just cygwin1.dll, I can live with the rule of thumb of "don't do it if
it hurts".
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Life is short - so eat dessert first!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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