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PR 25562: New binutils testsuite failures

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Mon Mar 30 12:26:53 GMT 2020 
Hi Jozef,

> The test is working as expected, for those targets an objcopy of an executable
> is not creating an exact copy of the original file.

Ah, OK.

> For the PE targets the datestamp in the executable file is not being copied by
> objcopy.

The old determinism problem.  *sigh*  We should probably just xfail these
targets since we know that the binaries can never be the same.

> For the MIPS targets, objcopy has added the names of output sections to the
> string table, where in the linked executable they were not in the string table.

Where were the names stored then, if not in the string table ?  Or did the
objcopy actually add new section symbols ?

This does sound like something that the MIPS maintainers ought to investigate
and decide whether it is a real bug or not.

> I can file bugzillas for these if you would like.

No, that should not be necessary.  I will check in an update for the PE targets
once I have tested it locally.

Cheers
  Nick
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