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Authored by emaste on Mar 3 2016, 11:21 PM.
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An empty debug link target previously returned a confusing and incorrect error like "objcopy: fread failed: No error: 0".

GNU objcopy allows an empty file as the debug link target. However, that case is nonsensical so just return an explicit error.

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This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Mar 4 2016, 5:52 PM
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