objdump bug

[Mauro Meneghin]

-------- Original Message --------
From: Mauro Meneghin <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: objdump bug
To: Alan Modra <address@hidden>

Alan Modra wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 09:48:47AM +0100, Mauro Meneghin wrote:
> > hello, after I had written a very smalll binary file (given in atachment
> > for linux intel)
> > objdump gives the message :
> >
> > Gildo:~$ objdump -d proj/asm/syn/ELFformat1/ELF_minimumsize
> > objdump: proj/asm/syn/ELFformat1/ELF_minimumsize: File format not
> > recognized
> > Gildo:~$
> >
> > this error message appears with binaries that have not a section header
> > entry for the first opcode found
> > this is a bug becouse ELF specification don't require the presence of
> > the section header for executable ELF
> >
> > my currently version of objdump is:
> > GNU objdump 2.11.90.0.19
>
> Current binutils reports:
> objdump: /tmp/ELF_minimumsize: File truncated
>
> This is correct as your test binary does not conform to the ELF spec.
> e_shoff should be zero when there are no section headers.  If e_shoff
> is non-zero and e_shnum is zero, the number of section headers is
> found in the sh_size member of section header zero.  See
> http://www.caldera.com/developers/gabi/latest/ch4.eheader.html
>
> --
> Alan Modra
> IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre

thanks for the replay
oh good then it's ok :)
I just send you that file with e_shoff=0
so you can test that too if you want
btw if I execute it it runs ok

ELF


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