PR31208, strip can break ELF alignment requirements In https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2007-August/053261.html (git commit 3dea8fca8b86) I disabled a then new linker feature that removed empty PT_LOAD headers in cases where a user specified program headers, and for objcopy. This can be a problem for objcopy/strip and since objcopy operates on sections, any part of a PT_LOAD loading file contents not covered by a section will be omitted anyway. PR 31208 * elf.c (_bfd_elf_map_sections_to_segments): Pass remove_empty_load as true to elf_modify_segment_map for objcopy/strip.
diff --git a/bfd/elf.c b/bfd/elf.c index 88c75ae..8bffd3c 100644 --- a/bfd/elf.c +++ b/bfd/elf.c
@@ -5789,7 +5789,7 @@ elf_seg_map (abfd) = mfirst; } - if (!elf_modify_segment_map (abfd, info, no_user_phdrs)) + if (!elf_modify_segment_map (abfd, info, no_user_phdrs || info == NULL)) return false; for (count = 0, m = elf_seg_map (abfd); m != NULL; m = m->next)