Re: PATCH: Rearrange SEC_XXX bits

[Andrew Cagney <cagney at gnu dot org>]

H. J. Lu wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 09:50:37AM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
> > H. J. Lu wrote:
> >
> > > We have very limited space in BFD section flag. But SEC_ARCH_BIT_0 is
> > > never used. There are also some COFF and TI specific bits. This patch
> > > removes SEC_ARCH_BIT_0 and makes COFF/TI specific bits for COFF/TI
> > > only so that other format/target can reuse those bits.
> >
> > FYI, this looks to break gdb's dump.exp testcase (that test writes out 
> > then reads back random object file formats verifying the result).  Right 
> > now I consider this 'weird'.
>
>
> I don't see how my patch should change anything.

Like I said, 'weird'.  It does point to this being an ABI change - any 
any solib version number needs to be rolled.

> In any case, I got
> Running /export/gnu/src/gdb/gdb/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/detach.exp ...
> Running /export/gnu/src/gdb/gdb/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/display.exp ...
> Running /export/gnu/src/gdb/gdb/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/dump.exp ...
> Running /export/gnu/src/gdb/gdb/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/echo.exp ...
>
> It looks fine to me.

That's because I found / fixed the [gdb] bug ;-)

Andrew