On Mon, 8 Dec 2025 at 08:24, Jan Beulich <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 05.12.2025 17:09, Frediano Ziglio wrote: > > From: Frediano Ziglio <[email protected]> > > > > Older binutils versions do not handle correctly PE files. > > It looks like they could work if they don't produce debug information > > but they mess the PE file in other way like putting invalid > > flags in sections. > > Also different tools will complain about the format (like > > objdump and strip). > > As already alluded to in the reply to Andrew - the above doesn't make > clear whether these binaries were in fact broken badly enough to be unusable. > As indicated there, my experience was that they were nevertheless usable. In > which case I don't think we should take such a measure. > > Jan
Hi, adding some more comments. Frediano
