[Bug binutils/21659] strings behaviour when called on a directory

2017-06-27 Thread jg at jguk dot org
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21659 --- Comment #8 from Jon Grant --- ok, yes, great to just have a message. Regards, Jon -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ bug-binutils mailing list bug-b

[Bug binutils/21659] strings behaviour when called on a directory

2017-06-27 Thread nickc at redhat dot com
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21659 --- Comment #7 from Nick Clifton --- Hi Jon, > Do you think okay to be a Warning as opposed to Error? the "gold" linker > calls it a fatal error. Meh - I am really not that bothered by this discrepancy. The tools are now producing reasonabl

[Bug binutils/21659] strings behaviour when called on a directory

2017-06-26 Thread jg at jguk dot org
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21659 --- Comment #6 from Jon Grant --- Hi Nick Great! Yes, maybe mine is too old. I'm on Ubuntu LTS binutils 2.26.1 Do you think okay to be a Warning as opposed to Error? the "gold" linker calls it a fatal error. $ gold mydir gold: fatal error

[Bug binutils/21659] strings behaviour when called on a directory

2017-06-26 Thread nickc at redhat dot com
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21659 --- Comment #5 from Nick Clifton --- Hi Jon, I could not reproduce the behaviour you describe for ld and ar - they both say "Is a directory" for me. This is with the latest mainline sources however. Objcopy did behave as you said, so

[Bug binutils/21659] strings behaviour when called on a directory

2017-06-26 Thread cvs-commit at gcc dot gnu.org
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21659 --- Comment #4 from cvs-commit at gcc dot gnu.org --- The master branch has been updated by Nick Clifton : https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=0602cdad745472ed2561d8096a4bb021c8d0301d commit 0602cdad745472ed2561d8096a4

[Bug binutils/21659] strings behaviour when called on a directory

2017-06-23 Thread jg at jguk dot org
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21659 --- Comment #3 from Jon Grant --- Great Nick! $ ld mydir ld: cannot find mydir: File format not recognised $ ar p mydir ar: mydir: File format not recognised I had a look at the others, I saw they have this kind of output below. Perhaps "ar

[Bug binutils/21659] strings behaviour when called on a directory

2017-06-23 Thread nickc at redhat dot com
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21659 Nick Clifton changed: What|Removed |Added Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED CC|

[Bug binutils/21659] strings behaviour when called on a directory

2017-06-23 Thread cvs-commit at gcc dot gnu.org
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21659 --- Comment #1 from cvs-commit at gcc dot gnu.org --- The master branch has been updated by Nick Clifton : https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=0e158763b0c5671cd40cdd2faee48d6659489ddd commit 0e158763b0c5671cd40cdd2faee