Landing: 7565cfd7ad2e

Project / Subsystem

binutils / mips

Date

2026-05-24

Author

Alan Modra <amodra@sourceware.org>

Commit

7565cfd7ad2edc1f4ba6c88c6af86e78856c5b3f

Source

public_inbox

Perf win

No

Breaking

No

All attributes

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binutils
subsystem
mips
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commit_hash
7565cfd7ad2edc1f4ba6c88c6af86e78856c5b3f
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public_inbox
headline
MIPS: Fixes problem with .note.gnu.build-id section.
tldr
Sections can be allocated in a segment again when using objcopy on MIPS.
author
Alan Modra <amodra@sourceware.org>
outcome
committed
performance_win
false
breaking_change
false
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[]
tags
  • mips
  • bfd
  • objcopy
  • sections
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bugzilla_pr
date
2026-05-24T00:00:00.000Z

A bug in file offset tracking that occurred when the .note.gnu.build-id section followed .MIPS.abiflags and .reginfo sections has been fixed. This resolves an issue where objcopy would fail with the error message “section .note.gnu.build-id can’t be allocated in segment”.