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PATCH: Don't display bits only used for BFD in abfd->flags.

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Fri Nov 5 11:45:00 GMT 2010 
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 07:46:53AM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >[about orphan compressed debug sections]
>> > A possible fix is to rename input sections when decompressing.
>>
>> I tried it, which lead to other problems. People will run into this problem
>> only if they compress debug sections.  If they do that, they should
>> update their linker scripts.
>
> The only other problems I see is the need to remove some asserts that
> are no longer true.  Was there something else that bothered you?
>
> bfd/
>        * elf.c (_bfd_elf_make_section_from_shdr): Rename input sections
>        when compressing or decompressing.  Don't assert name match.
>        * elf64-hppa.c (get_reloc_section): Don't assert name match.
>        * elfxx-ia64.c (get_reloc_section): Likewise.
> binutils/
>        * objcopy.c (copy_main): No need to rename sections when compressing
>        or decompressing.
> binutils/testsuite/
>        * binutils-all/objdump.W: Adjust expected result for debug section
>        rename.
>

I don't remember the details. Do objdump and readelf show the same
section name on the same section?


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H.J.
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