New bfd elf hook: force naming of local section symbols

[Alan Modra]

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 02:03:32PM +0000, Richard Sandiford wrote:
> OK, I know this is lame, but I'd like to add a hook to force
> swap_out_syms() to name local section symbols.  Besides the
> obvious file bloat, is there any reason why this would be
> a bad thing?

I don't think so.  Any place in bfd or the linker that depends on a
section symbol having a zero name is broken.

> The reason I need the hook is to work around a bug in the MIPSpro
> linker.

Hmm, do we care about broken third party tools?  I guess so..

> 	* bfd-elf.h (elf_backend_name_local_section_symbols): New hook.
> 	* elf.c (swap_out_syms): Use it to decide whether local section
> 	symbols should be named.
> 	* elfxx-target.h (elf_backend_name_local_section_symbols): New macro.
> 	* elfxx-mips.h (_bfd_mips_elf_name_local_section_symbols): Declare.
> 	(elf_backend_name_local_section_symbols): Define.
> 	* elfxx-mips.c (_bfd_mips_elf_name_local_section_symbols): New.

OK.

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Alan Modra
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