Problems adding a custom section to a Windows binary
This is slightly offtopic, but maybe some of the Windows folks know an answer to this question. I've been working on #9686 https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9686, but have been blocked by Windows rejecting all my attempts to add a custom section to a binary withthe error bash: ./c.exe: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error. I'm not sure if this is a gcc/binutils bug or not (the exact same commands with the same tools work fine on Linux binaries). I have filed http://sourceforge.net/p/mingw/bugs/2239 and https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17466 to see what the developers say, but have not gotten a response yet. Perhaps someone here knows what's going on? -- Gintautas Miliauskas ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
Re: Problems adding a custom section to a Windows binary
On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 6:28 PM, Gintautas Miliauskas gintautas.miliaus...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure if this is a gcc/binutils bug or not (the exact same commands with the same tools work fine on Linux binaries). There are huge differences between Linux ELF and Windows PE32/PE64; it would not be surprising if libbfd had bugs in the latter but not the former. Beyond that, I don't know. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonadhttp://sinenomine.net ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
Re: Problems adding a custom section to a Windows binary
My suggestion is to have GHC spit some assembler that it is already generating, and see if custom sections are used at any point. Edward Excerpts from Gintautas Miliauskas's message of 2014-10-12 15:28:40 -0700: This is slightly offtopic, but maybe some of the Windows folks know an answer to this question. I've been working on #9686 https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9686, but have been blocked by Windows rejecting all my attempts to add a custom section to a binary withthe error bash: ./c.exe: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error. I'm not sure if this is a gcc/binutils bug or not (the exact same commands with the same tools work fine on Linux binaries). I have filed http://sourceforge.net/p/mingw/bugs/2239 and https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17466 to see what the developers say, but have not gotten a response yet. Perhaps someone here knows what's going on? ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
