Re: objdump -d broken for Win32 dlls

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Philip Blundell wrote:
> 
> >I'm using the latest binutils (2.10.1) and it seems that
> >objdump -d (and possibly other things) is broken for Win32
> >executables and dlls.
> >
> >It used to work for binutils-2.9 (I just checked) but has been
> >broken somewhere between that release and 2.10.1. Is there
> >anything I can help with to get this fixed?
> 
> Can you be more specific about the breakage?  Ideally we need a self contained
> testcase and instructions on how to make it go wrong.

That wasn't a very good bug report was it.

I'm running objdump on Linux with it configured and installed as
follows:

    ./configure --enable-shared --disable-static --enable-targets=all \
         --enable-commonbfdlib --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu
    make
    make install

The following test case should be suffcient (use any win32 program or
dll):

    prompt > objdump -V
    GNU objdump 2.10.1
    Copyright 1997, 98, 99, 2000 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.
    prompt > objdump -d /mnt/win32/proj/program.exe
    objdump: /mnt/win32/proj/program.exe: File format not recognized

I had a preliminary look at it with ddd/gdb but it was a bit too
hairy for me to make immediate progress so I submitted a bug
report.

Thanks,
Erik
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