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-rw-r--r--bfd/ChangeLog7
-rw-r--r--bfd/elf.c32
2 files changed, 29 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index 9366ed5..83c7a0c 100644
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2007-09-08 Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
+
+ PR ld/2864, ld/5006
+ * elf.c (special_sections): Comment typo.
+ (elf_fake_sections): Force SHT_PROGBITS for sections that are
+ SHT_NOBITS if BFD section flags say they have contents.
+
2007-09-04 Michael Snyder <msnyder@access-company.com>
* elf32-bfin.c (howto_table): Cut and paste error?
diff --git a/bfd/elf.c b/bfd/elf.c
index 16dd4a0..3ff33dd 100644
--- a/bfd/elf.c
+++ b/bfd/elf.c
@@ -2084,7 +2084,7 @@ static const struct bfd_elf_special_section special_sections_t[] =
static const struct bfd_elf_special_section *special_sections[] =
{
special_sections_b, /* 'b' */
- special_sections_c, /* 'b' */
+ special_sections_c, /* 'c' */
special_sections_d, /* 'd' */
NULL, /* 'e' */
special_sections_f, /* 'f' */
@@ -2475,16 +2475,28 @@ elf_fake_sections (bfd *abfd, asection *asect, void *failedptrarg)
/* If the section type is unspecified, we set it based on
asect->flags. */
+ if ((asect->flags & SEC_GROUP) != 0)
+ sh_type = SHT_GROUP;
+ else if ((asect->flags & SEC_ALLOC) != 0
+ && (((asect->flags & (SEC_LOAD | SEC_HAS_CONTENTS)) == 0)
+ || (asect->flags & SEC_NEVER_LOAD) != 0))
+ sh_type = SHT_NOBITS;
+ else
+ sh_type = SHT_PROGBITS;
+
if (this_hdr->sh_type == SHT_NULL)
- {
- if ((asect->flags & SEC_GROUP) != 0)
- this_hdr->sh_type = SHT_GROUP;
- else if ((asect->flags & SEC_ALLOC) != 0
- && (((asect->flags & (SEC_LOAD | SEC_HAS_CONTENTS)) == 0)
- || (asect->flags & SEC_NEVER_LOAD) != 0))
- this_hdr->sh_type = SHT_NOBITS;
- else
- this_hdr->sh_type = SHT_PROGBITS;
+ this_hdr->sh_type = sh_type;
+ else if (this_hdr->sh_type == SHT_NOBITS
+ && sh_type == SHT_PROGBITS
+ && (asect->flags & SEC_ALLOC) != 0)
+ {
+ /* Warn if we are changing a NOBITS section to PROGBITS, but
+ allow the link to proceed. This can happen when users link
+ non-bss input sections to bss output sections, or emit data
+ to a bss output section via a linker script. */
+ (*_bfd_error_handler)
+ (_("section `%A' type changed to PROGBITS"), asect);
+ this_hdr->sh_type = sh_type;
}
switch (this_hdr->sh_type)