[PATCH v2 2/2] BFD: Use `bfd_is_abs_symbol' to determine whether a symbol is absolute

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at mips dot com>]

Use `bfd_is_abs_symbol' to determine whether a symbol is absolute, 
avoiding a problem with ordinary symbols defined in a linker script 
outside an output section definition.  Such symbols have its owning 
section set to the absolute section up to the final link phase.  A flag 
has been added to the link hash to identify such symbols.  Rather than 
checking the flag by hand, use the macro that does it uniformly for all 
users.

	bfd/
	* elf32-nds32.c (nds32_elf_relax_loadstore): Use 
	`bfd_is_abs_symbol' rather than `bfd_is_abs_section' in checking
	whether the symbol is absolute.
	(nds32_elf_relax_lo12): Likewise.
	* elfnn-aarch64.c (elfNN_aarch64_final_link_relocate): Likewise.
	(elfNN_aarch64_check_relocs): Likewise.
	* xcofflink.c (xcoff_need_ldrel_p): Likewise.
	(bfd_xcoff_import_symbol): Likewise.
	(xcoff_write_global_symbol): Likewise.
---
Hi,

 As I noted in my earlier reply I think the updated assertion in 
`xcoff_write_global_symbol' is stronger than the original, as now it will 
check both `h->root.u.def.section' for being the absolute section AND 
`h->root.rel_from_abs' for being clear, and therefore I have decided to 
leave the update in place.

 Please let me know if I missed anything.

 So the only update here is the removal of the type check ahead of the 
call to `bfd_is_abs_symbol' in `xcoff_need_ldrel_p', as it duplicates the 
checks made by the macro itself in v2.

  Maciej

Changes from v1:

- remove symbol type checks now made redundant from `xcoff_need_ldrel_p'.
---
 bfd/elf32-nds32.c   |    4 ++--
 bfd/elfnn-aarch64.c |    6 ++----
 bfd/xcofflink.c     |    9 +++------
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

binutils-ld-rel-from-abs-update.diff
Index: binutils/bfd/elf32-nds32.c
===================================================================
--- binutils.orig/bfd/elf32-nds32.c	2018-07-16 20:57:28.588873712 +0100
+++ binutils/bfd/elf32-nds32.c	2018-07-16 23:19:39.598102764 +0100
@@ -10567,7 +10567,7 @@ nds32_elf_relax_loadstore (struct bfd_li
 
 	  /* This is avoid to relax symbol address which is fixed
 	     relocations.  Ex: _stack.  */
-	  if (h && bfd_is_abs_section (h->root.u.def.section))
+	  if (h && bfd_is_abs_symbol (&h->root))
 	    return FALSE;
 	}
 
@@ -10707,7 +10707,7 @@ nds32_elf_relax_lo12 (struct bfd_link_in
   /* This is avoid to relax symbol address which is fixed
      relocations.  Ex: _stack.  */
   else if (N32_OP6 (insn) == N32_OP6_ORI
-	   && h && bfd_is_abs_section (h->root.u.def.section))
+	   && h && bfd_is_abs_symbol (&h->root))
     return;
   else
     {
Index: binutils/bfd/elfnn-aarch64.c
===================================================================
--- binutils.orig/bfd/elfnn-aarch64.c	2018-07-16 20:57:28.601977510 +0100
+++ binutils/bfd/elfnn-aarch64.c	2018-07-16 23:19:39.620300603 +0100
@@ -5224,8 +5224,7 @@ elfNN_aarch64_final_link_relocate (reloc
 
   weak_undef_p = (h ? h->root.type == bfd_link_hash_undefweak
 		  : bfd_is_und_section (sym_sec));
-  abs_symbol_p = (h !=NULL && h->root.type == bfd_link_hash_defined
-		  && bfd_is_abs_section (h->root.u.def.section));
+  abs_symbol_p = h != NULL && bfd_is_abs_symbol (&h->root);
 
 
   /* Since STT_GNU_IFUNC symbol must go through PLT, we handle
@@ -7363,8 +7362,7 @@ elfNN_aarch64_check_relocs (bfd *abfd, s
 	      if (h != NULL
 		  /* This is an absolute symbol.  It represents a value instead
 		     of an address.  */
-		  && ((h->root.type == bfd_link_hash_defined
-		       && bfd_is_abs_section (h->root.u.def.section))
+		  && (bfd_is_abs_symbol (&h->root)
 		      /* This is an undefined symbol.  */
 		      || h->root.type == bfd_link_hash_undefined))
 		break;
Index: binutils/bfd/xcofflink.c
===================================================================
--- binutils.orig/bfd/xcofflink.c	2018-07-16 20:57:28.614063037 +0100
+++ binutils/bfd/xcofflink.c	2018-07-17 00:08:44.144566894 +0100
@@ -2687,10 +2687,7 @@ xcoff_need_ldrel_p (struct bfd_link_info
     case R_RLA:
       /* Absolute relocations against absolute symbols can be
 	 resolved statically.  */
-      if (h != NULL
-	  && (h->root.type == bfd_link_hash_defined
-	      || h->root.type == bfd_link_hash_defweak)
-	  && bfd_is_abs_section (h->root.u.def.section))
+      if (h != NULL && bfd_is_abs_symbol (&h->root))
 	return FALSE;
 
       return TRUE;
@@ -3125,7 +3122,7 @@ bfd_xcoff_import_symbol (bfd *output_bfd
   if (val != (bfd_vma) -1)
     {
       if (h->root.type == bfd_link_hash_defined
-	  && (! bfd_is_abs_section (h->root.u.def.section)
+	  && (!bfd_is_abs_symbol (&h->root)
 	      || h->root.u.def.value != val))
 	(*info->callbacks->multiple_definition) (info, &h->root, output_bfd,
 						 bfd_abs_section_ptr, val);
@@ -5589,7 +5586,7 @@ xcoff_write_global_symbol (struct bfd_ha
 	    || h->root.type == bfd_link_hash_defweak)
 	   && h->smclas == XMC_XO)
     {
-      BFD_ASSERT (bfd_is_abs_section (h->root.u.def.section));
+      BFD_ASSERT (bfd_is_abs_symbol (&h->root));
       isym.n_value = h->root.u.def.value;
       isym.n_scnum = N_UNDEF;
       if (h->root.type == bfd_link_hash_defweak