From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 03:34:01 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: 	* layout.cc (Layout::include_section): Do not discard unrecognized
X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5cb66f97b7b8dbf0a951e9cf10f6b3ed0f309022;p=binutils-gdb.git

	* layout.cc (Layout::include_section): Do not discard unrecognized
	SHT_STRTAB sections.
---

diff --git a/gold/ChangeLog b/gold/ChangeLog
index d73e1cd9d88..f0f2c13f557 100644
--- a/gold/ChangeLog
+++ b/gold/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2008-07-03  Ian Lance Taylor  <iant@google.com>
+
+	* layout.cc (Layout::include_section): Do not discard unrecognized
+	SHT_STRTAB sections.
+
 2008-06-30  Craig Silverstein  <csilvers@cs.stanford.edu>
 
 	* script.cc (Lex::can_continue_name): Make '?' allowable in
diff --git a/gold/layout.cc b/gold/layout.cc
index 2c8c5241fb5..62ccaae2b1e 100644
--- a/gold/layout.cc
+++ b/gold/layout.cc
@@ -210,12 +210,19 @@ Layout::include_section(Sized_relobj<size, big_endian>*, const char* name,
     case elfcpp::SHT_NULL:
     case elfcpp::SHT_SYMTAB:
     case elfcpp::SHT_DYNSYM:
-    case elfcpp::SHT_STRTAB:
     case elfcpp::SHT_HASH:
     case elfcpp::SHT_DYNAMIC:
     case elfcpp::SHT_SYMTAB_SHNDX:
       return false;
 
+    case elfcpp::SHT_STRTAB:
+      // Discard the sections which have special meanings in the ELF
+      // ABI.  Keep others (e.g., .stabstr).  We could also do this by
+      // checking the sh_link fields of the appropriate sections.
+      return (strcmp(name, ".dynstr") != 0
+	      && strcmp(name, ".strtab") != 0
+	      && strcmp(name, ".shstrtab") != 0);
+
     case elfcpp::SHT_RELA:
     case elfcpp::SHT_REL:
     case elfcpp::SHT_GROUP: