Re: objcopy --add-section doubt

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Daniel,

> > Yes - this is the heart of the matter.  What is happening is that you 
> > are attempting to add a section that already exists.  The old (RH9) 
> > binutils silently allowed this, which was incorrect.

> Wait... why?  There's no restriction in ELF about having multiple
> sections with the same name; some non-GNU tools do this a lot.

Err, good point.  I suppose that technically it is allowed.

I guess that means that we need a new section creator function, one that 
does not refuse to create a section when another one of the same name 
already exists.  Hmm, this might get messy...  I'll think about it.

Cheers
  Nick