[ros-dev] Proposal to change .sym files

[Ge van Geldorp]

> From: Hartmut Birr
>
> I'm not sure if you mean objcopy instead of objdump. Objcopy
> for pe images isn't usable, because it changes the file and
> section allignments. I think that we need a tool which creates
> our new debug section as coff object file from the *.nostriped.*
> and that we need our own linker scripts which adds the section
> at the correct position within the image. This needs also a
> little change in freeldr, because the symbol section must be
> located after the bss section in ntoskrnl.   

This is getting a bit over my head, I'm no hero with COFF, linker scripts
and binutils in general. If I code the generation of the basic symbol file,
would someone else be able (and willing) to change it to a COFF object file
and do the linker magic?

Gé van Geldorp.