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| -rw-r--r-- | bfd/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | bfd/elf.c | 9 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog index e5b0769..77d3d81 100644 --- a/bfd/ChangeLog +++ b/bfd/ChangeLog @@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ (elfNN_hpux_post_process_headers): New function. #include elfNN-target.h again with values for IA64 HP-UX vector. +2001-12-18 Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com> + + * elf.c (assign_file_positions_for_segments): Don't sort PT_NOTE + sections of corefiles. Also it makes no sense to sort if count == 1. + 2001-12-18 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org> * elf.c (_bfd_elf_copy_private_bfd_data): Also copy GP. @@ -3299,8 +3299,13 @@ assign_file_positions_for_segments (abfd) asection **secpp; /* If elf_segment_map is not from map_sections_to_segments, the - sections may not be correctly ordered. */ - if (m->count > 0) + sections may not be correctly ordered. NOTE: sorting should + not be done to the PT_NOTE section of a corefile, which may + contain several pseudo-sections artificially created by bfd. + Sorting these pseudo-sections breaks things badly. */ + if (m->count > 1 + && !(elf_elfheader (abfd)->e_type == ET_CORE + && m->p_type == PT_NOTE)) qsort (m->sections, (size_t) m->count, sizeof (asection *), elf_sort_sections); |