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Diffstat (limited to 'bfd/elfxx-mips.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | bfd/elfxx-mips.c | 19 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/bfd/elfxx-mips.c b/bfd/elfxx-mips.c index bed8ed1..4718dd4 100644 --- a/bfd/elfxx-mips.c +++ b/bfd/elfxx-mips.c @@ -7583,6 +7583,25 @@ _bfd_mips_elf_check_relocs (bfd *abfd, struct bfd_link_info *info, elf_hash_table (info)->dynobj = dynobj = abfd; break; } + /* For sections that are not SEC_ALLOC a copy reloc would be + output if possible (implying questionable semantics for + read-only data objects) or otherwise the final link would + fail as ld.so will not process them and could not therefore + handle any outstanding dynamic relocations. + + For such sections that are also SEC_DEBUGGING, we can avoid + these problems by simply ignoring any relocs as these + sections have a predefined use and we know it is safe to do + so. + + This is needed in cases such as a global symbol definition + in a shared library causing a common symbol from an object + file to be converted to an undefined reference. If that + happens, then all the relocations against this symbol from + SEC_DEBUGGING sections in the object file will resolve to + nil. */ + if ((sec->flags & SEC_DEBUGGING) != 0) + break; /* Fall through. */ default: |