Objcopy fix for relocation sections

[Hans-Peter Nilsson]

On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 09:27:00AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> > $ ../../binutils/objcopy vp.so xxx.so
> > ../../binutils/objcopy: xxx.so: File truncated
> >
> > As the comment I added says, some reloc sections are not handled
> > specially by bfd (see bfd_section_from_shdr).  These should be
> > treated as normal bfd sections.
> >
> > 	* elf.c (assign_file_positions_except_relocs): Assign relocs
> > 	stored in a bfd section.
>
> Thanks!  Your explanation makes sense, and this also works for my test
> cases.

With regards to testcases, it might not be obvious, but it looks
like a job for run_dump_test with objcopy_linked_file in the ld
testsuite (which I agree might not be the intuitive place but at
least the framework is there).

brgds, H-P