Copy st_other for linker script symbol assignments

This fixes a problem seen on powerpc64le ELFv2 when creating a
function symbol alias with ld --defsym.  st_other needs to be copied
from the source symbol to the alias in order to set up the local entry
offset for the alias.  I decided to make this change in the generic
ELF code rather than in elf64-ppc.c since it looks like other targets
that use st_other bits might benefit too.

bfd/
	* elflink.c (_bfd_elf_copy_link_hash_symbol_type): Copy st_other
	bits from source to dest.
	* linker.c (_bfd_generic_copy_link_hash_symbol_type): Update comment.
	* targets.c (struct bfd_target <_bfd_copy_link_hash_symbol_type>):
	Likewise.
	* bfd-in2.h: Regenerate.
ld/testsuite/
	* ld-powerpc/defsym.s, * ld-powerpc/defsym.d: New test.
	* ld-powerpc/powerpc.exp: Run it.

5 files changed, 30 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index deed8ce..48280c4 100644
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+2014-07-08  Alan Modra  <amodra@gmail.com>
+
+	* elflink.c (_bfd_elf_copy_link_hash_symbol_type): Copy st_other
+	bits from source to dest.
+	* linker.c (_bfd_generic_copy_link_hash_symbol_type): Update comment.
+	* targets.c (struct bfd_target <_bfd_copy_link_hash_symbol_type>):
+	Likewise.
+	* bfd-in2.h: Regenerate.
+
 2014-07-08  Jiong Wang  <jiong.wang@arm.com>
 
 	* elfnn-aarch64.c (elf_backend_rela_normal): Set to 1.
diff --git a/bfd/bfd-in2.h b/bfd/bfd-in2.h
index ec19492..3886adc 100644
--- a/bfd/bfd-in2.h
+++ b/bfd/bfd-in2.h
@@ -7084,7 +7084,8 @@ typedef struct bfd_target
   /* Indicate that we are only retrieving symbol values from this section.  */
   void        (*_bfd_link_just_syms) (asection *, struct bfd_link_info *);
 
-  /* Copy the symbol type of a linker hash table entry.  */
+  /* Copy the symbol type and other attributes for a linker script
+     assignment of one symbol to another.  */
 #define bfd_copy_link_hash_symbol_type(b, t, f) \
   BFD_SEND (b, _bfd_copy_link_hash_symbol_type, (b, t, f))
   void (*_bfd_copy_link_hash_symbol_type)
diff --git a/bfd/elflink.c b/bfd/elflink.c
index ee80bcc..46d65f4 100644
--- a/bfd/elflink.c
+++ b/bfd/elflink.c
@@ -13044,17 +13044,24 @@ _bfd_elf_make_dynamic_reloc_section (asection *         sec,
   return reloc_sec;
 }
 
-/* Copy the ELF symbol type associated with a linker hash entry.  */
+/* Copy the ELF symbol type and other attributes for a linker script
+   assignment from HSRC to HDEST.  Generally this should be treated as
+   if we found a strong non-dynamic definition for HDEST (except that
+   ld ignores multiple definition errors).  */
 void
-_bfd_elf_copy_link_hash_symbol_type (bfd *abfd ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED,
-    struct bfd_link_hash_entry * hdest,
-    struct bfd_link_hash_entry * hsrc)
+_bfd_elf_copy_link_hash_symbol_type (bfd *abfd,
+				     struct bfd_link_hash_entry *hdest,
+				     struct bfd_link_hash_entry *hsrc)
 {
-  struct elf_link_hash_entry *ehdest = (struct elf_link_hash_entry *)hdest;
-  struct elf_link_hash_entry *ehsrc = (struct elf_link_hash_entry *)hsrc;
+  struct elf_link_hash_entry *ehdest = (struct elf_link_hash_entry *) hdest;
+  struct elf_link_hash_entry *ehsrc = (struct elf_link_hash_entry *) hsrc;
+  Elf_Internal_Sym isym;
 
   ehdest->type = ehsrc->type;
   ehdest->target_internal = ehsrc->target_internal;
+
+  isym.st_other = ehsrc->other;
+  elf_merge_st_other (abfd, ehdest, &isym, TRUE, FALSE);
 }
 
 /* Append a RELA relocation REL to section S in BFD.  */
diff --git a/bfd/linker.c b/bfd/linker.c
index 483a0d4..f6ae4e2 100644
--- a/bfd/linker.c
+++ b/bfd/linker.c
@@ -861,14 +861,13 @@ _bfd_generic_link_just_syms (asection *sec,
   sec->output_offset = sec->vma;
 }
 
-/* Copy the type of a symbol assiciated with a linker hast table entry.
-   Override this so that symbols created in linker scripts get their
-   type from the RHS of the assignment.
+/* Copy the symbol type and other attributes for a linker script
+   assignment from HSRC to HDEST.
    The default implementation does nothing.  */
 void
 _bfd_generic_copy_link_hash_symbol_type (bfd *abfd ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED,
-    struct bfd_link_hash_entry * hdest ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED,
-    struct bfd_link_hash_entry * hsrc ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED)
+    struct bfd_link_hash_entry *hdest ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED,
+    struct bfd_link_hash_entry *hsrc ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED)
 {
 }
 
diff --git a/bfd/targets.c b/bfd/targets.c
index 83131d1..81a3695 100644
--- a/bfd/targets.c
+++ b/bfd/targets.c
@@ -478,7 +478,8 @@ BFD_JUMP_TABLE macros.
 .  {* Indicate that we are only retrieving symbol values from this section.  *}
 .  void        (*_bfd_link_just_syms) (asection *, struct bfd_link_info *);
 .
-.  {* Copy the symbol type of a linker hash table entry.  *}
+.  {* Copy the symbol type and other attributes for a linker script
+.     assignment of one symbol to another.  *}
 .#define bfd_copy_link_hash_symbol_type(b, t, f) \
 .  BFD_SEND (b, _bfd_copy_link_hash_symbol_type, (b, t, f))
 .  void (*_bfd_copy_link_hash_symbol_type)