The Microsoft PE variants of the Coff object file format add
an extension to support the use of long section names. This
- extension is defined in section 4 of the Microsoft PE/COFF
+ extension is defined in section 4 of the Microsoft PE/COFF
specification (rev 8.1). If a section name is too long to fit
into the section header's @code{s_name} field, it is instead
placed into the string table, and the @code{s_name} field is
- filled with a slash ("/") followed by the ASCII decimal
+ filled with a slash ("/") followed by the ASCII decimal
representation of the offset of the full name relative to the
string table base.
expecting the MS standard format may become confused; @file{PEview} is
one known example.
- The functionality is supported in BFD by code implemented under
+ The functionality is supported in BFD by code implemented under
the control of the macro @code{COFF_LONG_SECTION_NAMES}. If not
defined, the format does not support long section names in any way.
- If defined, it is used to initialise a flag,
- @code{_bfd_coff_long_section_names}, and a hook function pointer,
+ If defined, it is used to initialise a flag,
+ @code{_bfd_coff_long_section_names}, and a hook function pointer,
@code{_bfd_coff_set_long_section_names}, in the Coff backend data
structure. The flag controls the generation of long section names
in output BFDs at runtime; if it is false, as it will be by default
points to a function that allows the value of the flag to be altered
at runtime, on formats that support long section names at all; on
other formats it points to a stub that returns an error indication.
-
+
With input BFDs, the flag is set according to whether any long section
names are detected while reading the section headers. For a completely
new BFD, the flag is set to the default for the target format. This
& (SEC_LINK_DUPLICATES_DISCARD | SEC_LINK_DUPLICATES_SAME_CONTENTS
| SEC_LINK_DUPLICATES_SAME_SIZE)) != 0)
styp_flags |= IMAGE_SCN_LNK_COMDAT;
-
+
/* skip LINKER_CREATED */
if ((sec_flags & SEC_COFF_NOREAD) == 0)
. bfd_boolean _bfd_coff_long_section_names;
. bfd_boolean (*_bfd_coff_set_long_section_names)
. (bfd *, int);
-.
+.
. unsigned int _bfd_coff_default_section_alignment_power;
. bfd_boolean _bfd_coff_force_symnames_in_strings;
. unsigned int _bfd_coff_debug_string_prefix_length;