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Diffstat (limited to 'bfd/coffgen.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | bfd/coffgen.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/bfd/coffgen.c b/bfd/coffgen.c index 469cdfa..0a1c97c 100644 --- a/bfd/coffgen.c +++ b/bfd/coffgen.c @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ /* Support for the generic parts of COFF, for BFD. Copyright 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, - 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008 + 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Written by Cygnus Support. @@ -59,8 +59,13 @@ make_a_section_from_file (bfd *abfd, name = NULL; - /* Handle long section names as in PE. */ - if (bfd_coff_long_section_names (abfd) + /* Handle long section names as in PE. On reading, we want to + accept long names if the format permits them at all, regardless + of the current state of the flag that dictates if we would generate + them in outputs; this construct checks if that is the case by + attempting to set the flag, without changing its state; the call + will fail for formats that do not support long names at all. */ + if (bfd_coff_set_long_section_names (abfd, bfd_coff_long_section_names (abfd)) && hdr->s_name[0] == '/') { char buf[SCNNMLEN]; |