bfd/elf.c(assign_section_numbers)

[Fabio Alemagna <falemagn at studenti dot unina dot it>]

Hello,

While waiting for a reply to my patch submission, here I'm exposing
another issue which needs to be solved somehow in the bfd/elf.c file.

The problem I'm facing is that I cannot use the "strip" command (nor
objcopy, of course) to strip an AROS executable because the sh_info fields
of the AROS-specific relocation sections are all zero'ed.

This happens because assign_section_numbers is called too late and after
any kind of callback is invoked by the backend, and hence there's no way
for me to tell the backend that a certain section has to have the sh_info
field filled with another section's index.

One solution would be to call assign_section_numbers() before
bfd_map_over_sections(..., elf_fake_sections, ...), in
bfd/elf.c:_bfd_elf_compute_section_file_positions().

Right now it looks like this:

  failed = FALSE;
  bfd_map_over_sections (abfd, elf_fake_sections, &failed);
  if (failed)
    return FALSE;

  if (!assign_section_numbers (abfd))
    return FALSE;

I don't think it would cause any arm if it looked like this:

  if (!assign_section_numbers (abfd))
    return FALSE;

  failed = FALSE;
  bfd_map_over_sections (abfd, elf_fake_sections, &failed);
  if (failed)
    return FALSE;

Please, give me feedback...

Regards,
Fabio Alemagna