From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Preserve build IDs
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:14:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1208459681.27241.28.camel@dv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1208433111.770.40.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 13:51 +0200, Lubomir Kundrak wrote:
> Actually that turned to not being a bug, if I recall correctly. It was
> just that in plain flat binary files there's really no way to express
> emptiness other by padding with zeroes.
I don't want to start a protracted discussion about binutils here, but
it's a bug in my opinion. objcopy is supposed to understand the
optional role of build ID and strip it if it cannot be presented in the
output as a build ID, rather than convert is to piece of binary data
followed by megabytes of "emptiness".
> However this is irrelevant since we no longer include that in the plain
> binary files. There's little use of it anyways, as it would not be
> possible to look it up in the file, given it resides in own section in
> ELF, and plain binaries really have no sections.
Agreed.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-17 19:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-14 22:41 [PATCH] Preserve build IDs Lubomir Kundrak
2008-04-15 13:35 ` Robert Millan
2008-04-15 19:04 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-04-17 11:51 ` Lubomir Kundrak
2008-04-17 19:14 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
2008-04-17 14:14 ` Robert Millan
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