From: Jan Beulich Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2022 13:43:26 +0000 (+0200) Subject: ELF: emit symbol table when there are relocations X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2ba2f096185c201607cdb1571e51e00e8b66e449;p=binutils-gdb.git ELF: emit symbol table when there are relocations Even when there are no symbols (e.g. all relocations being against absolute values), a symbol table (with just the first placeholder entry) needs to be emitted. Otherwise tools like objdump won't properly process the relocations. The respective checks in assign_section_numbers() and _bfd_elf_compute_section_file_positions() support also this view. Oddly enough so far HAS_RELOC was only set when reading in an object file, but not when generating one anew; the flag would only have been cleared when no relocations were found (anymore). While there also amend the affected function's leading comment to also mention gas. --- diff --git a/bfd/elf.c b/bfd/elf.c index 89484ceb233..25f4bca34f0 100644 --- a/bfd/elf.c +++ b/bfd/elf.c @@ -3674,7 +3674,7 @@ elf_get_reloc_section (asection *reloc_sec) /* Assign all ELF section numbers. The dummy first section is handled here too. The link/info pointers for the standard section types are filled in here too, while we're at it. LINK_INFO will be 0 when arriving - here for objcopy, and when using the generic ELF linker. */ + here for gas, objcopy, and when using the generic ELF linker. */ static bool assign_section_numbers (bfd *abfd, struct bfd_link_info *link_info) @@ -3717,9 +3717,11 @@ assign_section_numbers (bfd *abfd, struct bfd_link_info *link_info) reloc_count += sec->reloc_count; } - /* Clear HAS_RELOC if there are no relocations. */ + /* Set/clear HAS_RELOC depending on whether there are relocations. */ if (reloc_count == 0) abfd->flags &= ~HAS_RELOC; + else + abfd->flags |= HAS_RELOC; } for (sec = abfd->sections; sec; sec = sec->next)