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[binutils-gdb] gold: Provide more failed archive member info in error message
- From: H.J.Lu <hjl at sourceware dot org>
- To: bfd-cvs at sourceware dot org
- Date: 6 Dec 2018 20:30:28 -0000
- Subject: [binutils-gdb] gold: Provide more failed archive member info in error message
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=9da0a9988db7c9db92edaa3dc98f2a0648782b71
commit 9da0a9988db7c9db92edaa3dc98f2a0648782b71
Author: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Date: Thu Dec 6 12:28:46 2018 -0800
gold: Provide more failed archive member info in error message
When gold fails to get an archive member, its error message doesn't
have information for
1. The failed archive member name.
2. The cause of failure: non-ELF object vs non-IR object.
This patch adds the failed archive member name and non-ELF/non-IR info
to gold error message.
* archive.cc (Archive::get_elf_object_for_member): Also print
archive member and non-ELF/non-IR info on error.
Diff:
---
gold/ChangeLog | 5 +++++
gold/archive.cc | 13 +++++++++++--
2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gold/ChangeLog b/gold/ChangeLog
index 2379536..5c5bca2 100644
--- a/gold/ChangeLog
+++ b/gold/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2018-12-06 H.J. Lu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
+
+ * archive.cc (Archive::get_elf_object_for_member): Also print
+ archive member and non-ELF/non-IR info on error.
+
2018-12-05 Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
* symtab.h (Symbol::Symbol): Avoid -Wclass-memaccess warning.
diff --git a/gold/archive.cc b/gold/archive.cc
index 4df9e74..fe2a507 100644
--- a/gold/archive.cc
+++ b/gold/archive.cc
@@ -690,6 +690,7 @@ Archive::get_elf_object_for_member(off_t off, bool* punconfigured)
int read_size;
Object *obj = NULL;
bool is_elf_obj = false;
+ bool unclaimed = false;
if (is_elf_object(input_file, memoff, &ehdr, &read_size))
{
@@ -716,12 +717,20 @@ Archive::get_elf_object_for_member(off_t off, bool* punconfigured)
delete obj;
return plugin_obj;
}
+
+ unclaimed = true;
}
if (!is_elf_obj)
{
- gold_error(_("%s: member at %zu is not an ELF object"),
- this->name().c_str(), static_cast<size_t>(off));
+ if (unclaimed)
+ gold_error(_("%s: plugin failed to claim member %s at %zu"),
+ this->name().c_str(), member_name.c_str(),
+ static_cast<size_t>(off));
+ else
+ gold_error(_("%s: member %s at %zu is not an ELF object"),
+ this->name().c_str(), member_name.c_str(),
+ static_cast<size_t>(off));
return NULL;
}