Host strip corrupts cross-built binaries

[Mark Mitchell]

On 9/30/2010 4:31 AM, Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>> It is theoretically possible that there's insufficient information for
>> strip to know what it's looking at, but I'd be very surprised; there
>> should be an ELF header field that indicates the machine type.
> 
>  And I guess if there's not, it's also a binutils bug  :-)

There are some object/executable file formats where this is no place to
put an architecture tag.  (The most extreme example is the "binary"
format, which is just an exact copy of the program as it will be
programmed into flash.)  But, yes, in ELF format object files or
executables, there is a header and that header has a field for the
architecture, so if something is not filling it in, that thing should be
fixed.

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