+2009-10-06 Nathan Sidwell <nathan@codesourcery.com>
+
+ * ldlang.c (lang_new_phdr): Check PHDRS and FILEHDR in loadable
+ segments do not appear after a different loadable segment.
+ * ld.texinfo (PHDRS): Document order of processing segments.
+ Document where PHDRS and FILEHDR may appear.
+
2009-10-03 Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
* emultempl/ppc32elf.em (emit_stub_syms): Init to -1.
of the linker script. It is not put into the output file. Program
header names are stored in a separate name space, and will not conflict
with symbol names, file names, or section names. Each program header
-must have a distinct name.
+must have a distinct name. The headers are processed in order and it
+is usual for them to map to sections in ascending load address order.
Certain program header types describe segments of memory which the
system loader will load from the file. In the linker script, you
@kindex FILEHDR
@kindex PHDRS
-You may use the @code{FILEHDR} and @code{PHDRS} keywords appear after
+You may use the @code{FILEHDR} and @code{PHDRS} keywords after
the program header type to further describe the contents of the segment.
The @code{FILEHDR} keyword means that the segment should include the ELF
file header. The @code{PHDRS} keyword means that the segment should
-include the ELF program headers themselves.
+include the ELF program headers themselves. If applied to a loadable
+segment (@code{PT_LOAD}), it must be the first loadable segment.
The @var{type} may be one of the following. The numbers indicate the
value of the keyword.
etree_type *flags)
{
struct lang_phdr *n, **pp;
+ bfd_boolean hdrs;
n = (struct lang_phdr *) stat_alloc (sizeof (struct lang_phdr));
n->next = NULL;
n->phdrs = phdrs;
n->at = at;
n->flags = flags;
+
+ hdrs = n->type == 1 && (phdrs || filehdr);
for (pp = &lang_phdr_list; *pp != NULL; pp = &(*pp)->next)
- ;
+ if (hdrs && (*pp)->type == 1)
+ {
+ einfo (_("%X%P:%S: PHDRS and FILEHDR are only permitted for the first PT_LOAD segment\n"));
+ hdrs = FALSE;
+ }
+
*pp = n;
}
--- /dev/null
+# name: PHDRS headers
+# source: phdrs.s
+# ld: -T phdrs3.t
+# error: \A[^ \n:]*:[^:\n]*:5: PHDRS and FILEHDR are only permitted for the first PT_LOAD segment\Z
--- /dev/null
+# Test PHDRS in a linker script.
+# By Nathan Sidwell <nathan@codesourcery.com>
+# Copyright 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+#
+# This file is part of the GNU Binutils.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street - Fifth Floor, Boston,
+# MA 02110-1301, USA.
+
+# PHDRS is only meaningful for ELF.
+if ![is_elf_format] {
+ return
+}
+
+load_lib ld-lib.exp
+
+set testname "PHDRS headers"
+
+set old_ldflags $LDFLAGS
+if { [istarget spu*-*-*] } {
+ set LDFLAGS "$LDFLAGS --no-overlays"
+}
+
+run_dump_test "phdrs3"
+
+set LDFLAGS $old_ldflags
--- /dev/null
+PHDRS
+{
+ data PT_LOAD ;
+ header PT_PHDR PHDRS ; /* OK */
+ text PT_LOAD FILEHDR PHDRS ;
+}
+
+SECTIONS
+{
+ /* This test will fail on architectures where the startaddress below
+ is less than the constant MAXPAGESIZE. */
+ . = 0x800000 + SIZEOF_HEADERS;
+ .text : { *(.text) } :text
+ .data : { *(.data) } :data
+ /DISCARD/ : { *(.*) }
+}