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

[Alan Modra]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 09:14:54PM +0300, Sergei Organov wrote:
> 
> 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.

I guess it was this change

2000-09-29  Momchil Velikov <address@hidden>

        * elf.c (elf_fake_sections): Do not mark the section SHT_NOBITS if
        is has the SEC_HAS_CONTENTS flag set.

I'm checking in the following to fix this problem, mainline and branch.

bfd/ChangeLog
        * elf.c (elf_fake_sections): Use SHT_NOBITS when SEC_NEVER_LOAD.

Index: bfd/elf.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/bfd/elf.c,v
retrieving revision 1.129
diff -u -p -r1.129 elf.c
--- elf.c       2002/02/13 21:53:31     1.129
+++ elf.c       2002/02/14 04:04:53
@@ -2219,7 +2219,8 @@ elf_fake_sections (abfd, asect, failedpt
       this_hdr->sh_entsize = 4;
     }
   else if ((asect->flags & SEC_ALLOC) != 0
-          && ((asect->flags & (SEC_LOAD | SEC_HAS_CONTENTS)) == 0))
+          && (((asect->flags & (SEC_LOAD | SEC_HAS_CONTENTS)) == 0)
+              || (asect->flags & SEC_NEVER_LOAD) != 0))
     this_hdr->sh_type = SHT_NOBITS;
   else
     this_hdr->sh_type = SHT_PROGBITS;

-- 
Alan Modra
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