[Bug binutils/32211] 2.41 and later don't seem to honor the `-z` flag

[nickc at redhat dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32211

Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|WAITING                     |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |NOTABUG

--- Comment #16 from Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com> ---
Hi Dan,

(In reply to Dan McDonald from comment #15)
> 1.) Thank you for confirming there was a doc update and I should've RTFM
> more carefully.  There's a philosophical argument about surprising chnages,
> but given the next item I'm not going to raise a stink.

Thanks.  I am sorry that this change caused you so much hassle.  At the time it
seemed rather obvious - bss sections do not contain anything (on disk) so
disassembling them could not produce any useful information.  In hindsight of
course this assumption was wrong.

> 2.) My use of the `-fno-zero-initialized-in-bss` compiler/gcc flag cured
> what ailed me.

Hooray.

I was wondering however - exactly what is it that your testsuite is checking
for ?
Maybe there is way to conduct the test without relying on objdump to
disassemble .bss sections...

> This was educational.  Thank you for your time & patience.

And thank you for taking the time to report this problem and then persist in
helping me to understand the real issue.

Cheers
  Nick

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