From: Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 23:44:54 +0000 (+0000)
Subject:         * elflink.h (elf_link_add_object_symbols): Work around bogus SH_LINK
X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=20e29382fd8835fc5fb13ad0e501e52f53f2932d;p=binutils-gdb.git

    * elflink.h (elf_link_add_object_symbols): Work around bogus SH_LINK
        field in hpux11 shared libraries.
---

diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index c23850f53a8..f45eafc8f77 100644
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Thu Sep  2 17:41:20 1999  Jeffrey A Law  (law@cygnus.com)
+
+	* elflink.h (elf_link_add_object_symbols): Work around bogus SH_LINK
+	field in hpux11 shared libraries.
+
 1999-09-02  Nick Clifton  <nickc@cygnus.com>
 
 	* elflink.h (elf_gc_record_vtentry): Fix memory leak.
diff --git a/bfd/elflink.h b/bfd/elflink.h
index 35bf885d82c..b7b5b23998f 100644
--- a/bfd/elflink.h
+++ b/bfd/elflink.h
@@ -954,6 +954,23 @@ elf_link_add_object_symbols (abfd, info)
 	    goto error_return;
 	  link = elf_elfsections (abfd)[elfsec]->sh_link;
 
+	  {
+	    /* The shared libraries distributed with hpux11 have a bogus
+	       sh_link field for the ".dynamic" section.  This code detects
+	       when LINK refers to a section that is not a string table and
+	       tries to find the string table for the ".dynsym" section
+	       instead.  */
+	    Elf_Internal_Shdr *hdr = elf_elfsections (abfd)[link];
+	    if (hdr->sh_type != SHT_STRTAB)
+	      {
+		asection *s = bfd_get_section_by_name (abfd, ".dynsym");
+		int elfsec = _bfd_elf_section_from_bfd_section (abfd, s);
+		if (elfsec == -1)
+		  goto error_return;
+		link = elf_elfsections (abfd)[elfsec]->sh_link;
+	      }
+	  }
+
 	  extdyn = dynbuf;
 	  extdynend = extdyn + s->_raw_size / sizeof (Elf_External_Dyn);
 	  for (; extdyn < extdynend; extdyn++)