[Bug binutils/12864] strip: Broken ELF binary size explodes after stripping

[amodra at gmail dot com]

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12864

Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com> 2011-06-09 10:15:14 
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objcopy/strip is attempting to correct the binary for demand paged loading. 
There should be no surprise that the layout changes.  You might argue that
objcopy could do a better job.  That's true but I doubt anyone is interested in
enhancing objcopy for invalid binaries.

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