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name collision for ELF reloc sections
- To: binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com
- Subject: name collision for ELF reloc sections
- From: Nick Clifton <nickc@cygnus.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 08:04:12 -0700
Hi Guys,
What do you think of the following patch? It is an attempt to fix a
problem encountered with the ARM ecos toolchain assembling a file
that contains a .section directive that looks like this:
.section .release__10Cyg_Thread,"ax",@progbits
This section has been derived from a C++ function declared like
this:
void Cyg_Thread::release()
with -ffunction-sections enabled. The problem is that
elf_fake_sections() thinks that the section is a REL section, since
it starts with .rel, and so it does not assign a file position to
it. Later on, when a fixup inside the section is being processed an
error occurs because BFD cannot seek to its location.
The patch solves this problem by making elf_fake_section look for
".rel." as the start of a name of a REL section (and similarly
".rela." for the start of a name of a RELA section). Looking for
the extra period guarantees that the section name cannot have been
generated from a real C/C++ function name, but I do not know if this
is safe. Is it possible to generate an ELF rel or rela section that
starts with .rel{a} but which does not have a second period
immediately following it ?
Cheers
Nick
1999-05-10 Nick Clifton <nickc@cygnus.com>
* elf.c (elf_fake_sections): Check for .rel. as start of rel
section, not just .rel. Same for .rela.
Index: elf.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/cvsfiles/devo/bfd/elf.c,v
retrieving revision 1.228
diff -p -r1.228 elf.c
*** elf.c 1999/04/08 15:37:28 1.228
- --- elf.c 1999/05/10 14:37:12
*************** elf_fake_sections (abfd, asect, failedpt
*** 1490,1502 ****
this_hdr->sh_type = SHT_DYNAMIC;
this_hdr->sh_entsize = bed->s->sizeof_dyn;
}
! else if (strncmp (asect->name, ".rela", 5) == 0
&& get_elf_backend_data (abfd)->use_rela_p)
{
this_hdr->sh_type = SHT_RELA;
this_hdr->sh_entsize = bed->s->sizeof_rela;
}
! else if (strncmp (asect->name, ".rel", 4) == 0
&& ! get_elf_backend_data (abfd)->use_rela_p)
{
this_hdr->sh_type = SHT_REL;
- --- 1490,1502 ----
this_hdr->sh_type = SHT_DYNAMIC;
this_hdr->sh_entsize = bed->s->sizeof_dyn;
}
! else if (strncmp (asect->name, ".rela.", 6) == 0
&& get_elf_backend_data (abfd)->use_rela_p)
{
this_hdr->sh_type = SHT_RELA;
this_hdr->sh_entsize = bed->s->sizeof_rela;
}
! else if (strncmp (asect->name, ".rel.", 5) == 0
&& ! get_elf_backend_data (abfd)->use_rela_p)
{
this_hdr->sh_type = SHT_REL;