From: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 15:49:46 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Skip section symbols from sections being discarded
X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=440c46077c678368213ec9911961cde4819adc05;p=binutils-gdb.git

Skip section symbols from sections being discarded
---

diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index c151aef83ee..30df566ea0d 100644
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+2001-07-03  Mark Elbrecht  <snowball3@softhome.net>
+
+	* cofflink.c (_bfd_coff_link_input_bfd): Skip section symbols from
+	sections being discarded.
+
+2001-07-03  Nick Clifton  <nickc@cambridge.redhat.com>
+
+	* cofflink.c (_bfd_coff_link_input_bfd): 
+
 2001-06-30  Alan Modra  <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
 
 	* elfcore.h (elf_core_file_p): Call bfd_section_from_phdr directly
diff --git a/bfd/cofflink.c b/bfd/cofflink.c
index 96b005bc89a..47716ac2eae 100644
--- a/bfd/cofflink.c
+++ b/bfd/cofflink.c
@@ -1501,6 +1501,21 @@ _bfd_coff_link_input_bfd (finfo, input_bfd)
 	    }
 	}
 
+#ifndef COFF_WITH_PE
+      /* Skip section symbols for sections which are not going to be
+	 emitted, or which belong to linkonce sections that are going
+	 to be discarded.  */
+      if (!skip
+	  && isym.n_sclass == C_STAT
+	  && isym.n_type == T_NULL
+          && isym.n_numaux > 0)
+        {
+          if ((*secpp)->output_section == bfd_abs_section_ptr
+              || (*secpp)->kept_section)
+            skip = true;
+        }
+#endif
+
       /* If we stripping debugging symbols, and this is a debugging
          symbol, then skip it.  FIXME: gas sets the section to N_ABS
          for some types of debugging symbols; I don't know if this is