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-rw-r--r--bfd/ChangeLog6
-rw-r--r--bfd/elflink.c8
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index a85199a..a5ec80a 100644
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2017-05-19 Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
+
+ * elflink.c (_bfd_elf_gc_mark_extra_sections): Don't keep
+ debug and special sections when no non-note alloc sections in an
+ object are kept.
+
2017-05-18 Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
* arc-got.h: Don't compare boolean values against TRUE or FALSE.
diff --git a/bfd/elflink.c b/bfd/elflink.c
index 387c6fd..71da4c9 100644
--- a/bfd/elflink.c
+++ b/bfd/elflink.c
@@ -12961,7 +12961,9 @@ _bfd_elf_gc_mark_extra_sections (struct bfd_link_info *info,
{
if ((isec->flags & SEC_LINKER_CREATED) != 0)
isec->gc_mark = 1;
- else if (isec->gc_mark)
+ else if (isec->gc_mark
+ && (isec->flags & SEC_ALLOC) != 0
+ && elf_section_type (isec) != SHT_NOTE)
some_kept = TRUE;
if (!debug_frag_seen
@@ -12970,8 +12972,8 @@ _bfd_elf_gc_mark_extra_sections (struct bfd_link_info *info,
debug_frag_seen = TRUE;
}
- /* If no section in this file will be kept, then we can
- toss out the debug and special sections. */
+ /* If no non-note alloc section in this file will be kept, then
+ we can toss out the debug and special sections. */
if (!some_kept)
continue;