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

["H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>]

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 07:31:55PM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> I checked in this patch to avoid displaying bits only used for BFD in
>> abfd->flags.
>
> OK, so now we are down to just these fails.
>
> dlx-elf ?+FAIL: ld-elf/compress1a
> dlx-elf ?+FAIL: ld-elf/compress1b
> i370-linux ?+FAIL: ld-elf/compress1c
> microblaze-elf ?+FAIL: ld-elf/compress1a
> microblaze-elf ?+FAIL: ld-elf/compress1b
>
> The i370 one is an assertion failure, but there are many others like
> it in this port, so that fail can be ignored. ?The other fails are due
> to dlx and microblaze not mentioning debug sections in their linker
> scripts. ?That's interesting because it shows a deficiency in the
> current compressed debug section support, in the handling of orphan
> sections. ?I guarantee you will run into this even on x86 with
> projects that provide their own linker scripts.
>
> 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.


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H.J.