Attached pre_stage2.exec is a small prebuilt file from grub 0.97, and grub is
trying to do
objcopy -O binary pre_stage2.exec pre_stage2
and this produces a huge invalid file :
[~]> ls -al pre_stage2.exec
-rwxr-xr-x 1 cartman users 138718 Oca 9 04:53 pre_stage2.exec
so this is 138k
[~]> objcopy -O binary pre_stage2.exec pre_stage2
[~]> ls -al pre_stage2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 cartman users 134479576 Oca 9 05:05 pre_stage2
Output is 134MB , whoa. Now lets see what kinda file is this :
[~]> file pre_stage2
pre_stage2: data
Strip doesn't recognize it either:
[~]> strip pre_stage2
strip:pre_stage2: File format not recognized
Using,
[~]> objcopy -V
GNU objcopy (Pardus Linux) 2.18.50.0.3.20071102
Copyright 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License version 3 or (at your option) any later version.
This program has absolutely no warranty.
Also reproduced with vanilla CVS head as of today.
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Summary: objcopy -O binary produces huge invalid file
Product: binutils
Version: 2.18
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: binutils
AssignedTo: unassigned at sources dot redhat dot com
ReportedBy: ismail at pardus dot org dot tr
CC: bug-binutils at gnu dot org
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5556
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