From: Luke Allardyce <lukeallardyce@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 10:08:05 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Accept hidden COFF symbols, but treat them as if they were debugging symbols.
X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7103ad7639b7ed80bec170404185a8e39079446b;p=binutils-gdb.git

Accept hidden COFF symbols, but treat them as if they were debugging symbols.

	PR ld/20722
	* coffcode.h (coff_slurp_symbol_table): Accept C_HIDDEN symbols,
	but treat them as debugging symbols.
---

diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index abfda75b2b3..b8a1ba42251 100644
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2016-11-11  Luke Allardyce  <lukeallardyce@gmail.com>
+
+	PR ld/20722
+	* coffcode.h (coff_slurp_symbol_table): Accept C_HIDDEN symbols,
+	but treat them as debugging symbols.
+
 2016-11-10  Jiong Wang  <jiong.wang@arm.com>
 
 	PR target/20737
diff --git a/bfd/coffcode.h b/bfd/coffcode.h
index 0862f665024..b926c65bbe3 100644
--- a/bfd/coffcode.h
+++ b/bfd/coffcode.h
@@ -5068,7 +5068,6 @@ coff_slurp_symbol_table (bfd * abfd)
 	    case C_UEXT:	/* Tentative external definition.  */
 #endif
 	    case C_EXTLAB:	/* External load time label.  */
-	    case C_HIDDEN:	/* Ext symbol in dmert public lib.  */
 	    default:
 	      _bfd_error_handler
 		/* xgettext:c-format */
@@ -5076,6 +5075,10 @@ coff_slurp_symbol_table (bfd * abfd)
 		 abfd, src->u.syment.n_sclass,
 		 dst->symbol.section->name, dst->symbol.name);
 	      ret = FALSE;
+	      /* Faal through.  */
+	    case C_HIDDEN:	/* Ext symbol in dmert public lib.  */
+	      /* PR 20722: These symbols can also be generated by
+		 building DLLs with --gc-sections enabled.  */
 	      dst->symbol.flags = BSF_DEBUGGING;
 	      dst->symbol.value = (src->u.syment.n_value);
 	      break;