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authorJohn Gilmore <gnu@cygnus>1991-11-23 03:20:41 +0000
committerJohn Gilmore <gnu@cygnus>1991-11-23 03:20:41 +0000
commite6e265ce3a710b8e819d11578eed1e9113c8d5b8 (patch)
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parent28e353598cafe6e0d5390c5e0c136318c100253c (diff)
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Fix hp300bsd entry point problem.
Diffstat (limited to 'bfd')
-rw-r--r--bfd/ChangeLog4
-rw-r--r--bfd/aoutx.h19
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index 397597b..d83ddc3 100644
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
Fri Nov 22 08:11:42 1991 John Gilmore (gnu at cygnus.com)
+ * aoutx.h (some_aout_object_p): Set the `executable' bit
+ if the entry point is contained in the text segment, even if the
+ text segment is at location 0.
+
* coff-mips.c, coffcode.h: Peter Schauer's patch to kludge in
nonstandard MIPS sections (.rdata, .sdata, etc).
diff --git a/bfd/aoutx.h b/bfd/aoutx.h
index 89e07cd..f9fe460 100644
--- a/bfd/aoutx.h
+++ b/bfd/aoutx.h
@@ -270,6 +270,7 @@ DEFUN(NAME(aout,some_aout_object_p),(abfd, execp, callback_to_real_object_p),
bfd_target *(*callback_to_real_object_p) ())
{
struct container *rawptr;
+ bfd_target *result;
rawptr = (struct container *) bfd_zalloc (abfd, sizeof (struct container));
if (rawptr == NULL) {
@@ -286,8 +287,7 @@ DEFUN(NAME(aout,some_aout_object_p),(abfd, execp, callback_to_real_object_p),
abfd->flags = NO_FLAGS;
if (execp->a_drsize || execp->a_trsize)
abfd->flags |= HAS_RELOC;
- if (execp->a_entry)
- abfd->flags |= EXEC_P;
+ /* Setting of EXEC_P has been deferred to the bottom of this function */
if (execp->a_syms)
abfd->flags |= HAS_LINENO | HAS_DEBUG | HAS_SYMS | HAS_LOCALS;
@@ -399,7 +399,20 @@ DEFUN(NAME(aout,some_aout_object_p),(abfd, execp, callback_to_real_object_p),
header, should cope with them in this callback as well. */
#endif /* DOCUMENTATION */
- return (*callback_to_real_object_p)(abfd);
+ result = (*callback_to_real_object_p)(abfd);
+
+ /* Now that the segment addresses have been worked out, take a better
+ guess at whether the file is executable. If the entry point
+ is within the text segment, assume it is. (This makes files
+ executable even if their entry point address is 0, as long as
+ their text starts at zero.)
+
+ At some point we should probably break down and stat the file and
+ declare it executable if (one of) its 'x' bits are on... */
+ if ((execp->a_entry >= obj_textsec(abfd)->vma) &&
+ (execp->a_entry < obj_textsec(abfd)->vma + obj_textsec(abfd)->size))
+ abfd->flags |= EXEC_P;
+ return result;
}
/*doc*