[Fwd: Patch to remove confusing warning generated by objcopy -I binary]

[Nick.SIMON at syntegra.bt.co.uk]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Sherrill [mailto:joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com]
> Sent: 08 November 2000 14:18
> To: Nick.SIMON at syntegra.bt.co.uk
> Cc: rtems-users at OARcorp.com
> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Patch to remove confusing warning generated by
> objcopy -I binary]
> 
> 
> Nick.SIMON at syntegra.bt.co.uk wrote:
> > 
> > Call me a fuddy-duddy, but I don't like the idea of 
> removing warnings from
> > standard utilities.  How about piping the warning to 
> /dev/null in the
> > makefile?
> 
> Actually I think this patch has already been merged so will show up
> in a future binutils release although probably not the next one.
> 
> I think the issue here is that this warning will always be generated
> for binary since there is no architecture associated with it.
> The warning should be generated is you force a file a file with
> architecture information to one without.
>  

I see what you mean..  it's always OK to import architecture-neutral data.

I guess your patch is OK then (just as well if it's a fait accomplis).



-- Nick Simon