Re: objdump -d broken for Win32 dlls

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Erik,

: >     % objdump -d SMSS.EXE
: >     objdump: /home/nickc/tmp/SMSS.EXE: File format is ambiguous
: >     objdump: Matching formats: efi-app-ia32 pei-i386
: 
: Ok, I know pei-i386 is Win32, but what is efi-app-ia32

>From bfd/efi-app-ia64.c:

  /* BFD back-end for HP/Intel IA-64 EFI application files.

: and why can't is be automatically distinguished from pei-i386? 

I guess because it uses a very similar binary format to the pei-i386.
Note - I was running objdump with a bfd library compiled with
--enable-targets=all which is why the multiple object formats were
detected.  With most toolchains, where only one target is enabled,
this problem would not arise.

Cheers
        Nick