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--- binutils.orig/binutils/objcopy.c	2021-02-18 11:35:48.062479490 +0000
+++ binutils-2.30/binutils/objcopy.c	2021-02-18 11:36:52.207071148 +0000
@@ -2224,6 +2224,11 @@ merge_gnu_build_notes (bfd *          ab
 	  goto done;
 	}
 
+      if (start > end)
+	/* This can happen with PPC64LE binaries where empty notes are
+	   encoded as start = end + 4.  */
+	start = end;
+
       if (is_open_note (pnote))
 	{
 	  if (start)
--- binutils.orig/binutils/objcopy.c	2021-02-22 10:44:20.107263089 +0000
+++ binutils-2.35.1/binutils/objcopy.c	2021-02-22 16:07:12.134344229 +0000
@@ -2243,23 +2243,8 @@ merge_gnu_build_notes (bfd *          ab
 	  break;
 
 	case 8:
-	  if (! is_64bit (abfd))
-	    {
-	      start = bfd_get_32 (abfd, pnote->note.descdata);
-	      end = bfd_get_32 (abfd, pnote->note.descdata + 4);
-	    }
-	  else
-	    {
-	      start = bfd_get_64 (abfd, pnote->note.descdata);
-	      /* FIXME: For version 1 and 2 notes we should try to
-		 calculate the end address by finding a symbol whose
-		 value is START, and then adding in its size.
-
-		 For now though, since v1 and v2 was not intended to
-		 handle gaps, we chose an artificially large end
-		 address.  */
-	      end = (bfd_vma) -1;
-	    }
+	  start = bfd_get_32 (abfd, pnote->note.descdata);
+	  end = bfd_get_32 (abfd, pnote->note.descdata + 4);
 	  break;
 
 	case 16: