[Bug binutils/30561] conversion from binary to PE broken

[nickc at redhat dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30561

Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com> ---
Hi Stas,

  To be honest I am not at all surprised by this.  Converting arbitrary binary
input into a specific file format is never going to work well.  There is just
not enough information in the input format to enable a proper conversion.

  Instead may I suggest an alternative, using the assembler's .incbin
directive, like this:

  $ cat tst.s
  .data
  .incbin "/etc/resolv.conf"

  $ as tst.s -o tst.o
  $ file tst.o
  tst.o: Intel amd64 COFF object file, no relocation info, no line number info,
not stripped, 3 sections, symbol offset=0x43c, 8 symbols, 1st section name
".text"

  $ objdump -P header tst.o

  tst.o:     file format pe-x86-64

  File header not present

    Image Header (at offset 0):
  Machine Number:               0x8664          - AMD64
  Number of sections:           3
  Time/Date:                    00000000        - not set
  Symbol table offset:          0x00043c
  Number of symbols:            8
  Optional header size:         0
  Flags:                        0x0005          - RELOCS STRIPPED,LINE NUMS
STRIPPED

    Optional header not present


Cheers
  Nick

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