2010-09-22 Kai Tietz <kai.tietz@onevision.com>
+ * ldlang.c (lang_add_section): Allow for debugging
+ section to be marked as noload but to keep content.
+ (IGNORE_SECTION): Likewise.
+ (lang_check_section_addresses): Likewise.
+ * ldwrite.c (build_link_order): Likewise.
+
* emultempl/pe.em (gld_${EMULATION_NAME}_place_orphan): Add
idata to orphan set.
* emultempl/pep.em: Likewise.
case noload_section:
flags &= ~SEC_LOAD;
flags |= SEC_NEVER_LOAD;
- if ((flags & SEC_COFF_SHARED_LIBRARY) == 0)
+ if (((bfd_get_flavour (section->owner)
+ == bfd_target_ecoff_flavour)
+ || (bfd_get_flavour (section->owner)
+ == bfd_target_coff_flavour)))
+ {
+ if ((flags & (SEC_COFF_SHARED_LIBRARY | SEC_DEBUGGING)) == 0)
+ flags &= ~SEC_HAS_CONTENTS;
+ }
+ else
flags &= ~SEC_HAS_CONTENTS;
break;
}
return 0;
}
+/* On ELF, a debugging section must never set SEC_NEVER_LOAD, as no output
+ would be written for it. So the combination of debugging and never-load
+ is something which can only happen for pe-coff and must not be ignored. */
#define IGNORE_SECTION(s) \
- ((s->flags & SEC_NEVER_LOAD) != 0 \
+ ((s->flags & (SEC_NEVER_LOAD | SEC_DEBUGGING)) == SEC_NEVER_LOAD \
|| (s->flags & SEC_ALLOC) == 0 \
|| ((s->flags & SEC_THREAD_LOCAL) != 0 \
&& (s->flags & SEC_LOAD) == 0))
for (s = link_info.output_bfd->sections; s != NULL; s = s->next)
{
/* Only consider loadable sections with real contents. */
- if ((s->flags & SEC_NEVER_LOAD)
+ if ((s->flags & (SEC_NEVER_LOAD | SEC_DEBUGGING)) == SEC_NEVER_LOAD
|| !(s->flags & SEC_LOAD)
|| !(s->flags & SEC_ALLOC)
|| s->size == 0)
link_order = bfd_new_link_order (link_info.output_bfd,
output_section);
- if (i->flags & SEC_NEVER_LOAD)
+ if ((i->flags & SEC_NEVER_LOAD) != 0
+ && (i->flags & SEC_DEBUGGING) == 0)
{
/* We've got a never load section inside one which
is going to be output, we'll change it into a