[committed, PATCH] Always create dynsym section with dynamic sections

H.J. Lu hongjiu.lu@intel.com
Tue Feb 23 00:33:00 GMT 2016
We should always create the dynsym section, even if it is empty, with
dynamic sections.

	* elflink.c (_bfd_elf_link_renumber_dynsyms): Always create the
	dynsym section, even if it is empty, with dynamic sections.
---
 bfd/ChangeLog | 5 +++++
 bfd/elflink.c | 6 +++---
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index dd1a308..1e0f6a1 100644
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 2016-02-22  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
 
+	* elflink.c (_bfd_elf_link_renumber_dynsyms): Always create the
+	dynsym section, even if it is empty, with dynamic sections.
+
+2016-02-22  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
+
 	* syms.c: Remove BSF_COMMON from comments.
 	* bfd-in2.h: Regenerated.
 
diff --git a/bfd/elflink.c b/bfd/elflink.c
index c7672ed..89a6dea 100644
--- a/bfd/elflink.c
+++ b/bfd/elflink.c
@@ -875,9 +875,9 @@ _bfd_elf_link_renumber_dynsyms (bfd *output_bfd,
 			  &dynsymcount);
 
   /* There is an unused NULL entry at the head of the table which
-     we must account for in our count.  Unless there weren't any
-     symbols, which means we'll have no table at all.  */
-  if (dynsymcount != 0)
+     we must account for in our count.  We always create the dynsym
+     section, even if it is empty, with dynamic sections.  */
+  if (elf_hash_table (info)->dynamic_sections_created)
     ++dynsymcount;
 
   elf_hash_table (info)->dynsymcount = dynsymcount;
-- 
2.5.0



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