Incorrect handling of NOLOAD by ld version 2.11.2 (elf).

[Sergei Organov]

It seems that ld version 2.11.2 incorrectly handles NOLOAD output section type
specification when input section(s) do contain data. Neither 2.9.5 nor 2.10
have this problem.

Running "makeit" script from attached testcase I observe the following
output. Note that output section ".sect" does have "LOAD" and "CONTENTS"
attributes when linked using 2.11.2 while I believe it shouldn't (and it
doesn't when earlier version of ld is used).

$ ./makeit
Linux falcon 2.2.14 #2 SMP Sat Apr 15 13:24:18 MSD 2000 i686 unknown
GNU ld version 2.11.2 (with BFD 2.11.2)
  Supported emulations:
   elf_i386
   i386linux
opened script file ./linker.cmd
attempt to open tmp.o succeeded
tmp.o

tmp1.o:     file format elf32-i386

Sections:
Idx Name          Size      VMA       LMA       File off  Algn
  0 .sect         0000004b  00000000  00000000  00001000  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, CODE
GNU ld version 2.9.5 (with BFD 2.9.5.0.31)
  Supported emulations:
   elf_i386
   i386linux
opened script file ./linker.cmd
attempt to open tmp.o succeeded
tmp.o

tmp1.o:     file format elf32-i386

Sections:
Idx Name          Size      VMA       LMA       File off  Algn
  0 .sect         0000004b  00000000  00000000  00001000  2**2
                  ALLOC, CODE
$

Binutils 2.11.2 have been built from sources obtained from anonymous CVS

:pserver:address@hidden:/cvs/src

using

cd ~/cygnus/binutils
cvs -f update -P -d -r binutils-2_11_2

then built and installed using

cd ~/build
~/cygnus/binutils/configure -v --prefix=/home/osv/try --disable-nls
make CFLAGS=-O2 CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET=-O2
make CFLAGS=-O2 CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET=-O2 install

ld-noload-bug.tgz
Description: Testcase for NOLOAD bug.