Support debuginfo files with empty group sections.

	PR 29532
bfd	* elf.c (setup_group): Do not return false if there is no group
	information available.

bionutils* objcopy.c (setup_section): Leave group sections intact when
	creating separate debuginfo files.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/bfd/elf.c b/bfd/elf.c
index 1f427e4..2eb2a97 100644
--- a/bfd/elf.c
+++ b/bfd/elf.c
@@ -830,7 +830,11 @@ setup_group (bfd *abfd, Elf_Internal_Shdr *hdr, asection *newsect)
       /* xgettext:c-format */
       _bfd_error_handler (_("%pB: no group info for section '%pA'"),
 			  abfd, newsect);
-      return false;
+      /* PR 29532: Return true here, even though the group info has not been
+	 read.  Separate debug info files can have empty group sections, but
+	 we do not want this to prevent them from being loaded as otherwise
+	 GDB will not be able to use them.  */
+      return true;
     }
   return true;
 }