Disable warning message about a program header with no associated sections when that header's file size is non-zero.

	PR ld/21212
	* elf.c (rewrite_elf_program_header): Do not issue a warning for
	empty segments which have a non-zero filesz.

2 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index 607194f..4a27e04 100644
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2017-03-02  Martin Bickel  <binutils@ineranves.de>
+
+	PR ld/21212
+	* elf.c (rewrite_elf_program_header): Do not issue a warning for
+	empty segments which have a non-zero filesz.
+
 2017-03-02  Alan Modra  <amodra@gmail.com>
 
 	* elf32-ppc.c (ppc_elf_vle_split16): Correct insn mask typo.
diff --git a/bfd/elf.c b/bfd/elf.c
index 94726ba..9418e51 100644
--- a/bfd/elf.c
+++ b/bfd/elf.c
@@ -6689,11 +6689,16 @@ rewrite_elf_program_header (bfd *ibfd, bfd *obfd)
 	  /* Special segments, such as the PT_PHDR segment, may contain
 	     no sections, but ordinary, loadable segments should contain
 	     something.  They are allowed by the ELF spec however, so only
-	     a warning is produced.  */
-	  if (segment->p_type == PT_LOAD)
+	     a warning is produced.  
+	     There is however the valid use case of embedded systems which
+	     have segments with p_filesz of 0 and a p_memsz > 0 to initialize
+	     flash memory with zeros.  No warning is shown for that case.  */
+	  if (segment->p_type == PT_LOAD
+	      && (segment->p_filesz > 0 || segment->p_memsz == 0))
+	    /* xgettext:c-format */
 	    _bfd_error_handler (_("\
-%B: warning: Empty loadable segment detected, is this intentional ?"),
-				ibfd);
+%B: warning: Empty loadable segment detected at vaddr=0x%.8x, is this intentional ?"),
+				ibfd, segment->p_vaddr);
 
 	  map->count = 0;
 	  *pointer_to_map = map;