Re: strings utility

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Brendan,

> Please bear with me if this is not the proper forum to report this bug. 

Actually it is.

> address@hidden mollusk]$ strings  UNREGASF.EXE 
> BFD: BFD internal error, aborting at coffcode.h line 763 in
> styp_to_sec_flags
> 
> When i attemped the same operation by providing the -a flag, the
> program functioned correctly. The version of strings i am using is
> 2.10.91.

This bug has probably already been fixed, but in a later version of
the strings program.  The latest version is 2.11.2 and you can
download the binutils sources (containing the strings program) from
any GNU FTP site.

Cheers
        Nick