[Etherboot-developers] Re: [ANNOUNCE] mkelfImage 2.0

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ollie lho <ol...@si...> writes:

> Eric,
> 	Something off topic, the elfImage made by mkelfImage 1.1x can 
> not be recognized by 'objdump' but can be dumped by 'readelf'. Is there
> any reason for this ? 

Yes.  This is a bug in some versions of objdump.  On my current
system this bug does not occur.  It can be worked around by putting
in a dummy symbol table, but this increases the size by a few bytes.
Possibly a problem in an embedded situation.

>Is this fixed by ver. 2.0 ?

No.

And my version objdump which does not show the problem is:

eric@maxwell:~$ objdump --version
GNU objdump 2.13.90.0.10 20021010 Debian GNU/Linux
Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no
warranty.

Eric