Don't try to create a bfd section for the first ELF section header table

entry, since it is just a placeholder with no name.

diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index cd1886261756ef3c141fbe142e94f88d5168f6ca..dc04638d6fc85748cbfc70b7ec5b24f044d15d61 100644 (file)
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Sat Nov  9 13:45:01 1991  Fred Fish  (fnf at cygnus.com)
+
+       * elf.c (elf_object_p):  Don't try to create a bfd section for
+       the first ELF section header.  It is just a placeholder.
+
 Sat Nov  9 03:04:26 1991  John Gilmore  (gnu at cygnus.com)
 
        * coff-rs6000.c, config/mh-rs6000:  Make it work on archive and

diff --git a/bfd/elf.c b/bfd/elf.c
index 427c2d183ba9ef1271756cf573a5654cff92b79d..bd62645c61e85bac0187d162c8d552b69f8c7972 100644 (file)
--- a/bfd/elf.c
+++ b/bfd/elf.c
@@ -412,9 +412,10 @@ wrong:
     }
   
   /* Once all of the section headers have been read and converted, we
-     can start processing them. */
+     can start processing them.  Note that the first section header is
+     a dummy placeholder entry, so we ignore it. */
 
-  for (shindex = 0; shindex < i_ehdr.e_shnum; shindex++)
+  for (shindex = 1; shindex < i_ehdr.e_shnum; shindex++)
     {
       bfd_section_from_shdr (abfd, i_shdr + shindex, shstrtab);
     }
@@ -701,7 +702,7 @@ DEFUN (elf_sizeof_headers, (abfd, reloc),
 #define elf_openr_next_archived_file   bfd_generic_openr_next_archived_file
 #define elf_generic_stat_arch_elt      bfd_generic_stat_arch_elt
 #define        elf_write_armap                 (PROTO (boolean, (*),           \
-     (bfd *arch, unsigned int elength, struct orl *map, int orl_count, \
+     (bfd *arch, unsigned int elength, struct orl *map, unsigned int orl_count,        \
       int stridx))) bfd_false
 
 /* Ordinary section reading and writing */