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gas: error for section type, attr, or entsize change
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
- To: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 15:32:15 +1030
- Subject: gas: error for section type, attr, or entsize change
I think it is reasonable to expect that section directives be
consistent within a source file, so this patch changes some gas
warnings to errors.
* config/obj-elf.c (obj_elf_change_section): Error for section
type, attr or entsize changes in assembly.
* testsuite/gas/elf/elf.exp: Pass -Z to gas for section5 test.
* testsuite/gas/elf/section5.l: Update.
diff --git a/gas/config/obj-elf.c b/gas/config/obj-elf.c
index d7a07fec6b..a7225983f6 100644
--- a/gas/config/obj-elf.c
+++ b/gas/config/obj-elf.c
@@ -767,7 +767,17 @@ obj_elf_change_section (const char *name,
{
if (type != SHT_NULL
&& (unsigned) type != elf_section_type (old_sec))
- as_warn (_("ignoring changed section type for %s"), name);
+ {
+ if (ssect != NULL)
+ /* This is a special section with known type. User
+ assembly might get the section type wrong; Even high
+ profile projects like glibc have done so in the past.
+ So don't error in this case. */
+ as_warn (_("ignoring changed section type for %s"), name);
+ else
+ /* Do error when assembly isn't self-consistent. */
+ as_bad (_("changed section type for %s"), name);
+ }
if (attr != 0)
{
@@ -779,14 +789,19 @@ obj_elf_change_section (const char *name,
| SEC_EXCLUDE | SEC_SORT_ENTRIES | SEC_MERGE | SEC_STRINGS
| SEC_LINK_ONCE | SEC_LINK_DUPLICATES_DISCARD
| SEC_THREAD_LOCAL)))
- as_warn (_("ignoring changed section attributes for %s"), name);
+ {
+ if (ssect != NULL)
+ as_warn (_("ignoring changed section attributes for %s"), name);
+ else
+ as_bad (_("changed section attributes for %s"), name);
+ }
else
/* FIXME: Maybe we should consider removing a previously set
processor or application specific attribute as suspicious ? */
elf_section_flags (sec) = attr;
if ((flags & SEC_MERGE) && old_sec->entsize != (unsigned) entsize)
- as_warn (_("ignoring changed section entity size for %s"), name);
+ as_bad (_("changed section entity size for %s"), name);
}
}
diff --git a/gas/testsuite/gas/elf/elf.exp b/gas/testsuite/gas/elf/elf.exp
index 0f9b2672c4..b0522af3bb 100644
--- a/gas/testsuite/gas/elf/elf.exp
+++ b/gas/testsuite/gas/elf/elf.exp
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ if { [is_elf_format] } then {
# new sections created without atrributes.
# The RX port does not complain about changing the attributes of the
# .data and .bss sections since it does not use those names.
- run_elf_list_test "section5" "" "-al" "-SW" "| grep \" \\\\.test\\\[0-9\\\]\""
+ run_elf_list_test "section5" "" "-al -Z" "-SW" "| grep \" \\\\.test\\\[0-9\\\]\""
}
run_dump_test "struct"
if { ![istarget "alpha*-*-*"] } then {
diff --git a/gas/testsuite/gas/elf/section5.l b/gas/testsuite/gas/elf/section5.l
index 31b87e6035..00a1456068 100644
--- a/gas/testsuite/gas/elf/section5.l
+++ b/gas/testsuite/gas/elf/section5.l
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
.*: Assembler messages:
-.*:7: Warning: .*
-.*:7: Warning: .*
-.*:10: Warning: .*
-.*:16: Warning: .*
+.*:7: Error: .*
+.*:7: Error: .*
+.*:10: Error: .*
+.*:16: Error: .*
.*:18: Warning: .*
.*:20: Warning: .*
.*:22: Warning: .*
.*:24: Warning: .*
+4 errors, 4 warnings, generating bad object file
.*GAS.*
--
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM