Re: objdump -d broken for Win32 dlls

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Nick Clifton wrote:
> 
> From bfd/efi-app-ia32.c:
> 
>   /* BFD back-end for HP/Intel IA-32 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 

Thats the way mine is installed.

> which is why the multiple object formats were
> detected.  With most toolchains, where only one target is enabled,
> this problem would not arise.

I'm thinking maybe I will compile a binutils with just the targets 
I care about but really I don't think it should be too difficult to 
distinguish between them.

Does anybody have any examples of efi-app-ia32 files? I'm willing
to do the hacking and submit a patch.

Erik
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