[Bug binutils/6914] New: global symbol alignment is not covered at all

2008-09-23 Thread sherpya at netfarm dot it
Recent versions of binutils added support for lcomm alignment, this needs a patch in gcc that is not integrated, perhaps I've discovered that global symbols alignment is not covered at all (comm has only size on win32) 16-byte alignment is mandatory for sse ops I've looked in binutils code but it'

how to install binutils

2008-09-23 Thread Tischler, Ron
Just got a copy of binutils from cygwin, and I'm trying to figure out how to install it. I want to build a version of ld that runs on the PC and deals with elf object files for the x86_64 platform. What I actually tried was: ./configure --target=amd64 make all-ld That gave an error messag

[Bug binutils/6913] New: [PATCH] binutils printf format string errors on Intrepid

2008-09-23 Thread anders at kaseorg dot com
binutils HEAD and 2.18.50.0.9 fail to compile on Intrepid (which enables -Wformat-security by default) because of these printf format string errors: dwarf.c:189: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments listing.c:1103: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments d

[Bug binutils/6789] (cygwin) objcopy converts PE to invalid ELF

2008-09-23 Thread de at iru dot ch
--- Additional Comments From de at iru dot ch 2008-09-23 20:14 --- $ ..\..\Tools\objcopy -V GNU objcopy (GNU Binutils) 2.19.50.20080921 Copyright 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License ve

[Bug binutils/6789] (cygwin) objcopy converts PE to invalid ELF

2008-09-23 Thread de at iru dot ch
--- Additional Comments From de at iru dot ch 2008-09-23 20:12 --- Created an attachment (id=2960) --> (http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=2960&action=view) An example of a failing PE-EXE -- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6789 --- You are receiving