From: Richard Sandiford Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 10:18:17 +0000 (+0000) Subject: * config/tc-mips.c (s_change_section): When parsing the MIPS-specific X-Git-Tag: cagney_bigcore-20040122-branchpoint~438 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8ab8a5c8883d632c9187b1dada22ec10b6109798;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fbinutils.git * config/tc-mips.c (s_change_section): When parsing the MIPS-specific .section syntax, map SHT_MIPS_DWARF to SHT_PROGBITS. --- diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog index 2ee1c91..aec39cc 100644 --- a/gas/ChangeLog +++ b/gas/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2003-12-18 Richard Sandiford + + * config/tc-mips.c (s_change_section): When parsing the MIPS-specific + .section syntax, map SHT_MIPS_DWARF to SHT_PROGBITS. + 2003-12-17 Mark Mitchell * config/tc-arm.c (arm_archs): Change "armv6" to "armv6j". diff --git a/gas/config/tc-mips.c b/gas/config/tc-mips.c index d60e75f..e6997ca 100644 --- a/gas/config/tc-mips.c +++ b/gas/config/tc-mips.c @@ -11981,6 +11981,22 @@ s_change_section (int ignore ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED) section_name = xstrdup (section_name); + /* When using the generic form of .section (as implemented by obj-elf.c), + there's no way to set the section type to SHT_MIPS_DWARF. Users have + traditionally had to fall back on the more common @progbits instead. + + There's nothing really harmful in this, since bfd will correct + SHT_PROGBITS to SHT_MIPS_DWARF before writing out the file. But it + means that, for backwards compatibiltiy, the special_section entries + for dwarf sections must use SHT_PROGBITS rather than SHT_MIPS_DWARF. + + Even so, we shouldn't force users of the MIPS .section syntax to + incorrectly label the sections as SHT_PROGBITS. The best compromise + seems to be to map SHT_MIPS_DWARF to SHT_PROGBITS before calling the + generic type-checking code. */ + if (section_type == SHT_MIPS_DWARF) + section_type = SHT_PROGBITS; + obj_elf_change_section (section_name, section_type, section_flag, section_entry_size, 0, 0, 0);