The patch found in this folder is for the binutils-2.24 snapshot. It's a rebase of Sebastian Biallas' ancient patch that was never upstreamed into mainline binutils: https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2007-03/msg00366.html You can find a snapshot of 2.24 here: http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/binutils/releases/binutils-2.24.tar.gz Build on cygwin with: `bash -x -o igncr build.sh`