On Friday 17 August 2007, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > Why doesn't it default to the default architecture binutils was
> > > built for?
> >
> > i think a similar question was posed for default -EB/-EL selection and
> > the answer was no one really cared enough to fix it ;)
>
>  One issue is for some architectures you cannot set some ELF file header
> flags that may be needed for some uses of the resulting object file.  For
> example for MIPS/Linux you cannot set the PIC flag which makes the file
> less that useful if you want it to become a part of userland binary.  A
> better solution these days is often to use `gas' (through the `gcc' driver
> and hence accepting all the usual target-specific and less so object
> generation options) and its .incbin directive instead...

i'd say this is to be expected ... the binary only contains so much 
information so the resulting ELF is only as useful as what the binary 
contains and what you give it

in other words, i dont think this sort of thing is enough to say the default 
behavior of objcopy should remain the same
-mike