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

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

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 5:04 AM, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 04:45:15AM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> 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?
>
> objdump shows the converted name when displaying decompressed debug
> section contents, hence the objdump.W change. ?I see this as a
> feature. ?;-)

What section names does "objcopy --compress-debug-sections" generate?


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H.J.