For COFF and COFF/PE targets, skip relocations against absolute symbols.

	PR ld/19623
	* cofflink.c (_bfd_coff_generic_relocate_section): Do not apply
	relocations against absolute symbols.

diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index fc632192682100eefc7f3cf8f7fcb2e5de40138c..d0dfd9bf4415114a9db71faae799deda1324a9f4 100644 (file)
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2016-03-09  Leon Winter  <winter-gcc@bfw-online.de>
+
+       PR ld/19623
+       * cofflink.c (_bfd_coff_generic_relocate_section): Do not apply
+       relocations against absolute symbols.
+
 2016-03-09  Alan Modra  <amodra@gmail.com>
 
        PR binutils/19775

diff --git a/bfd/cofflink.c b/bfd/cofflink.c
index 7652cc3fa21f542783553eae0e06a638d98a3a76..4756fc3070f69bd202e59032ddeccd5ffd95a285 100644 (file)
--- a/bfd/cofflink.c
+++ b/bfd/cofflink.c
@@ -3007,6 +3007,12 @@ _bfd_coff_generic_relocate_section (bfd *output_bfd,
          else
            {
              sec = sections[symndx];
+
+             /* PR 19623: Relocations against symbols in
+                the absolute sections should ignored.  */
+              if (bfd_is_abs_section (sec))
+               continue;
+
               val = (sec->output_section->vma
                     + sec->output_offset
                     + sym->n_value);