Allow overriding common loader settings when automatic load file parsing fails.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/view/pe/coffview.cpp b/view/pe/coffview.cpp
index 814c8cf2..4296917a 100644
--- a/view/pe/coffview.cpp
+++ b/view/pe/coffview.cpp
@@ -459,6 +459,10 @@ bool COFFView::Init()
 				m_logger->LogError("COFF architecture '0x%x' is not supported", header.machine);
 				break;
 			}
+
+			if (!m_parseOnly)
+				m_logger->LogWarn("Unable to determine architecture. Please open the file with options and select a valid architecture.");
+
 			return false;
 		}
 
@@ -1662,8 +1666,8 @@ Ref<Settings> COFFViewType::GetLoadSettingsForData(BinaryView* data)
 	Ref<BinaryView> viewRef = Parse(data);
 	if (!viewRef || !viewRef->Init())
 	{
-		m_logger->LogError("View type '%s' could not be created", GetName().c_str());
-		return nullptr;
+		m_logger->LogWarn("Failed to initialize view of type '%s'. Generating default load settings.", GetName().c_str());
+		viewRef = data;
 	}
 
 	Ref<Settings> settings = GetDefaultLoadSettingsForData(viewRef);