[Bug binutils/20659] Objcopy and change section lma failing

[nickc at redhat dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20659

Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com> ---
Hi Neil,

  Is this actually an error ?  According to the sources that I looked at(*)
this message is actually a warning, not an error, and the objcopy does proceed
correctly.

  The message itself is meant to be informatory - ie it is telling you that the
.MIPS-abiflags section is allocatable (it has SHF_ALLOC flag set) but it is not
covered by any of the memory regions described in the ELF program headers. 
Which means that *if* the file is loaded into memory using only the information
in the program headers, then the .MIPS.abiflags section will be missed.

Cheers
  Nick

(*) - I am looking at the current binutils development sources.  You reported
this bug against the 2.24 sources, which are really quite old now.  It may be
that the "allocate section not in segment" message was an error back then.  In
which case you can probably solve the problem by upgrading to a newer set of
binutils sources.

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