+Thu Aug 1 22:43:08 1996 Jeffrey A Law (law@cygnus.com)
+
+ * libhppa.h: Remove "esel" changes. Not the right approach.
+ * som.c: Corresponding changes.
+ (som_bfd_derive_misc_symbol_info): Use ST_DATA for symbols
+ which don't have a SOM symbol type associated with them.
+ Reverses a 1994 change.
+
Wed Jul 31 15:50:55 1996 Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com>
Make ld -N more reasonable for ELF:
final_types[5] = NULL;
break;
}
- else if (field == e_esel)
- {
- final_types[0] = (int *)bfd_alloc_by_size_t (abfd, sizeof (int));
- *final_types[0] = R_COMP2;
- final_types[1] = final_type;
- *final_types[1] = R_DATA_EXPR;
- final_types[2] = NULL;
- break;;
- }
/* PLABELs get their own relocation type. */
else if (field == e_psel
|| field == e_lpsel
break;
case R_CODE_EXPR:
- case R_DATA_EXPR:
/* The only time we generate R_COMP1, R_COMP2 and
R_CODE_EXPR relocs is for the difference of two
symbols. Hence we can cheat here. */
info->arg_reloc = som_symbol_data (sym)->tc_data.hppa_arg_reloc;
}
- /* If the type is unknown at this point, it should be ST_DATA or
- ST_CODE (function/ST_ENTRY symbols were handled as special
- cases above). */
+ /* For unknown symbols, set their type to ST_DATA.
+
+ We used to set the symbol type based on the section this symbol
+ was in (ST_DATA for DATA sections, ST_CODE for CODE sections).
+ Strictly speaking, this is the right approach. However, the
+ linker chokes if we have an R_DATA_ONE_SYMBOL reloc involving
+ an ST_CODE symbol in a shared library, which happens for
+ exception handling tables.
+
+ I tried an alternate approach to generating exception handling
+ tables using PUSH_SYM and DATA_EXPR relocs, but that fails to
+ relocate exception handling tables in shared libraries.
+
+ What a pain. */
else if (som_symbol_data (sym)->som_type == SYMBOL_TYPE_UNKNOWN)
- {
- if (sym->section->flags & SEC_CODE)
- info->symbol_type = ST_CODE;
- else
- info->symbol_type = ST_DATA;
- }
+ info->symbol_type = ST_DATA;
/* From now on it's a very simple mapping. */
else if (som_symbol_data (sym)->som_type == SYMBOL_TYPE_ABSOLUTE)