Michael Popov wrote:
I use mingw to produce win32 executables.
It makes executable with '.rsrc' section flags 0xC040
which mean the section is writeable.
According to Microsoft Portable Executable and
Common Object File Format Specification (revision 6.0, Feb 1999):
.rsrc section has
--- Additional Comments From schwab at suse dot de 2005-12-07 16:57 ---
Created an attachment (id=783)
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Output of objcopy -g
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--- Additional Comments From schwab at suse dot de 2005-12-07 16:57 ---
Created an attachment (id=782)
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Test object
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When stripping sections from an ELF object (eg. with objcopy -g) the resulting
object has invalid sh_link fields for LINK ORDER sections.
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Summary: objcopy does not update sh_link correctly
Product: binutils
Version: 2.17 (HEAD)
Status: NEW
--- Additional Comments From schwab at suse dot de 2005-12-07 17:07 ---
The problem is that elf_discarded_section points to the input section, but
this is not the linker.
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--- Additional Comments From hjl at lucon dot org 2005-12-07 18:53 ---
A patch is posted at
http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2005-12/msg00058.html
http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2005-12/msg00056.html
is similar. But it doesn't handle a section is removed by -R.
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--- Additional Comments From amodra at bigpond dot net dot au 2005-12-08
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A similar problem can be seen on older dynamic objects. When stripping debug
sections, section syms for the removed sections are not removed from .dynsym,
because strip doesn't touch .dynsym. This
