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.
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)