[PATCH v2] mips: don't force small data sections to be PROGBITS

[James Cowgill <James dot Cowgill at imgtec dot com>]

Here's the updated patch:

Previously when writing elf files, the .sdata section was forced to be
PROGBITS. However in some cases (eg objcopy --only-keep-debug) the section
will have no data stored in the final file and should be set to NOBITS. This
is already set elsewhere so removing the assignment in
bfd_mips_elf_section_processing should keep the section as the right type.

The change fixes testsuite failure:
 FAIL: simple objcopy of debug data
and fixes this warning when running objcopy on a file generated with
objcopy --only-keep-debug:
 BFD: st8WcWpJ: warning: allocated section `.sdata' not in segment

bfd/
* elfxx-mips.c (_bfd_mips_elf_section_processing): don't force small data
  sections to be PROGBITS
---
 bfd/elfxx-mips.c | 15 +++------------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bfd/elfxx-mips.c b/bfd/elfxx-mips.c
index a88d173..8664c18 100644
--- a/bfd/elfxx-mips.c
+++ b/bfd/elfxx-mips.c
@@ -6986,20 +6986,11 @@ _bfd_mips_elf_section_processing (bfd *abfd, Elf_Internal_Shdr *hdr)
       if (strcmp (name, ".sdata") == 0
 	  || strcmp (name, ".lit8") == 0
 	  || strcmp (name, ".lit4") == 0)
-	{
-	  hdr->sh_flags |= SHF_ALLOC | SHF_WRITE | SHF_MIPS_GPREL;
-	  hdr->sh_type = SHT_PROGBITS;
-	}
+	hdr->sh_flags |= SHF_ALLOC | SHF_WRITE | SHF_MIPS_GPREL;
       else if (strcmp (name, ".srdata") == 0)
-	{
-	  hdr->sh_flags |= SHF_ALLOC | SHF_MIPS_GPREL;
-	  hdr->sh_type = SHT_PROGBITS;
-	}
+	hdr->sh_flags |= SHF_ALLOC | SHF_MIPS_GPREL;
       else if (strcmp (name, ".compact_rel") == 0)
-	{
-	  hdr->sh_flags = 0;
-	  hdr->sh_type = SHT_PROGBITS;
-	}
+	hdr->sh_flags = 0;
       else if (strcmp (name, ".rtproc") == 0)
 	{
 	  if (hdr->sh_addralign != 0 && hdr->sh_entsize == 0)
-- 
2.1.3