Re: objdump -d broken for Win32 dlls

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Nick Clifton wrote:
> 
> Hi Erik,
> 
> I do not know if this will help, but with latest binutils sources,
> available from the binutils CVS server on:
> 
>   http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/?cvsroot=src

Yes, it did. I downloaded the CVS source, compiled it and it ran as
advertised.

> I get the following:
> 
>      % objdump -V
>      GNU objdump 2.10.91
>   [snip]
> 
>     % objdump -d SMSS.EXE
>     objdump: /home/nickc/tmp/SMSS.EXE: File format is ambiguous
>     objdump: Matching formats: efi-app-ia32 pei-i386

Ok, I know pei-i386 is Win32, but what is efi-app-ia32 and why can't
is be automatically distinguished from pei-i386?

TIA,
Erik
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