Jerker Bäck jerker.back@gmail.com
Sat Feb 28 12:25:00 GMT 2009

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I would like to suggest the following patch to allow a real linker version
stamp into PE binaries.

The version is stored in the vstamp member of AOUTHDR or equivalent
MajorLinkerVersion and MinorLinkerVersion of IMAGE_OPTIONAL_HEADER.

At the moment, all PE binaries are stamped with a generic "256" by BFD and
have been so for a long time. This makes it impossible to judge the status
of the tools that generated an unknown binary. A real stamp could help in
bug tracking, security issues, debugging tools, binary information tools
etc.

The only problem I can see with this patch is if it clash with binutils
version generation. Hope it works out.

thanks
Jerker Bäck



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