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diff --git a/bfd/elfxx-mips.c b/bfd/elfxx-mips.c
index 7bcdb11..a296458 100644
--- a/bfd/elfxx-mips.c
+++ b/bfd/elfxx-mips.c
@@ -4271,6 +4271,26 @@ _bfd_mips_elf_symbol_processing (bfd *abfd, asymbol *asym)
}
}
+/* There appears to be a bug in the MIPSpro linker that causes GOT_DISP
+ relocations against two unnamed section symbols to resolve to the
+ same address. For example, if we have code like:
+
+ lw $4,%got_disp(.data)($gp)
+ lw $25,%got_disp(.text)($gp)
+ jalr $25
+
+ then the linker will resolve both relocations to .data and the program
+ will jump there rather than to .text.
+
+ We can work around this problem by giving names to local section symbols.
+ This is also what the MIPSpro tools do. */
+
+bfd_boolean
+_bfd_mips_elf_name_local_section_symbols (bfd *abfd)
+{
+ return SGI_COMPAT (abfd);
+}
+
/* Work over a section just before writing it out. This routine is
used by both the 32-bit and the 64-bit ABI. FIXME: We recognize
sections that need the SHF_MIPS_GPREL flag by name; there has to be