From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 1994 14:46:10 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: 	* coffgen.c (coff_write_alien_symbol): If we are not using the
X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=715cde57f8aba52a2f4f32ef6fd7f01eb3411048;p=binutils-gdb.git

	* coffgen.c (coff_write_alien_symbol): If we are not using the
	symbol, clear the name so that it is not put in the string table.
	From Antti.Miettinen@ntc.nokia.com.
---

diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index fea7f4d96d0..df2709686bd 100644
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Thu Aug 25 10:44:53 1994  Ian Lance Taylor  (ian@sanguine.cygnus.com)
+
+	* coffgen.c (coff_write_alien_symbol): If we are not using the
+	symbol, clear the name so that it is not put in the string table.
+	From Antti.Miettinen@ntc.nokia.com.
+
 Wed Aug 24 11:49:19 1994  Ian Lance Taylor  (ian@sanguine.cygnus.com)
 
 	* coffgen.c (coff_print_symbol): Cast pointer different to long
diff --git a/bfd/coffgen.c b/bfd/coffgen.c
index 386f8dd112b..1b8a48b5896 100644
--- a/bfd/coffgen.c
+++ b/bfd/coffgen.c
@@ -783,7 +783,9 @@ coff_write_alien_symbol (abfd, symbol, written)
     {
       /* There isn't much point to writing out a debugging symbol
          unless we are prepared to convert it into COFF debugging
-         format.  So, we just ignore them.  */
+         format.  So, we just ignore them.  We must clobber the symbol
+         name to keep it from being put in the string table.  */
+      symbol->name = "";
       return true;
     }
   else