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objcopy in binutils doesn't work on Mac OS X

Eric Christopher echristo@apple.com
Thu Mar 1 17:45:00 GMT 2007 
>
> I only now realise what you mean. So gdb has a sub-dir with  
> binutils and
> with bfd. Since all the tools are actually available with Apple's gdb,
> why do they not come with Xcode? I suppose my best bet would be to
> download the source of Apple's gdb and use the binutils in there.
>
> Is that a reasonable approach?

I would only do that if you want mach-o support. If you don't need that
then I'd go with the normal binutils release - especially since the  
apple
bfd only supports reading, not writing of mach-o anyhow.

-eric
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