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authorJeff Law <law@redhat.com>1999-09-02 23:44:54 +0000
committerJeff Law <law@redhat.com>1999-09-02 23:44:54 +0000
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* elflink.h (elf_link_add_object_symbols): Work around bogus SH_LINK
field in hpux11 shared libraries.
-rw-r--r--bfd/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--bfd/elflink.h17
2 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index c23850f..f45eafc 100644
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Thu Sep 2 17:41:20 1999 Jeffrey A Law (law@cygnus.com)
+
+ * elflink.h (elf_link_add_object_symbols): Work around bogus SH_LINK
+ field in hpux11 shared libraries.
+
1999-09-02 Nick Clifton <nickc@cygnus.com>
* elflink.h (elf_gc_record_vtentry): Fix memory leak.
diff --git a/bfd/elflink.h b/bfd/elflink.h
index 35bf885..b7b5b23 100644
--- a/bfd/elflink.h
+++ b/bfd/elflink.h
@@ -954,6 +954,23 @@ elf_link_add_object_symbols (abfd, info)
goto error_return;
link = elf_elfsections (abfd)[elfsec]->sh_link;
+ {
+ /* The shared libraries distributed with hpux11 have a bogus
+ sh_link field for the ".dynamic" section. This code detects
+ when LINK refers to a section that is not a string table and
+ tries to find the string table for the ".dynsym" section
+ instead. */
+ Elf_Internal_Shdr *hdr = elf_elfsections (abfd)[link];
+ if (hdr->sh_type != SHT_STRTAB)
+ {
+ asection *s = bfd_get_section_by_name (abfd, ".dynsym");
+ int elfsec = _bfd_elf_section_from_bfd_section (abfd, s);
+ if (elfsec == -1)
+ goto error_return;
+ link = elf_elfsections (abfd)[elfsec]->sh_link;
+ }
+ }
+
extdyn = dynbuf;
extdynend = extdyn + s->_raw_size / sizeof (Elf_External_Dyn);
for (; extdyn < extdynend; extdyn++)