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| author | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2020-03-06 10:09:22 +0000 |
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| committer | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2020-03-06 10:09:22 +0000 |
| commit | a0dcf2970562c19140460a07b2c987714639cd7b (patch) | |
| tree | 67161a1ca585012f45c4b117bb9ecbd8bbc17740 /binutils/doc | |
| parent | bc49bfd849a9291b61bbe314505a35d07e130347 (diff) | |
Fix an abort triggered when objcopy is used to set the "share" section flag on an ELF section.
binutils* objcopy.c (check_new_section_flags): New function. Reject the
SEC_COFF_SHARED flag if the target is not a COFF binary.
(copy_object): Call check_new_section_flags.
(setup_section): Likewise.
* doc/binutils.texi (objcopy): Add a note that the 'share' section
flag cannot be applied to ELF binaries.
bfd * elf.c (_bfd_elf_set_section_contents): Replace call to abort
with error messages and failure return values.
Diffstat (limited to 'binutils/doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | binutils/doc/binutils.texi | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi index 3099e3f545..de3f1babb2 100644 --- a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi +++ b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi @@ -1648,7 +1648,9 @@ recognized names are @samp{alloc}, @samp{contents}, @samp{load}, @samp{contents} flag for a section which does not have contents, but it is not meaningful to clear the @samp{contents} flag of a section which does have contents--just remove the section instead. Not all flags are -meaningful for all object file formats. +meaningful for all object file formats. In particular the +@samp{share} flag is only meaningful for COFF format files and not for +ELF format files. @item --set-section-alignment @var{sectionpattern}=@var{align} Set the alignment for any sections matching @var{sectionpattern}. @@ -1704,7 +1706,8 @@ Rename a section from @var{oldname} to @var{newname}, optionally changing the section's flags to @var{flags} in the process. This has the advantage over using a linker script to perform the rename in that the output stays as an object file and does not become a linked -executable. +executable. This option accepts the same set of flags as the +@option{--sect-section-flags} option. This option is particularly helpful when the input format is binary, since this will always create a section called .data. If for example, |