MIPS, strip --only-keep-debug & an infinite loop

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 05:16:09PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> > >  That makes sense.  And with readelf I can see the problem now -- 
> > > ".MIPS.options" is left marked as SHT_MIPS_OPTIONS as opposed to 
> > > SHT_NOBITS.  Since that section no longer contains anything relevant, it 
> > > should be considered a bug.
> > 
> > Hmm... I'm not completely sure, but your explanation is definitely
> > plausible.  But BFD does a lot of things based on section name.  Will
> > it actually help if the section is SHT_NOBITS, if its name is still
> > .MIPS.options?
> 
>  For MIPS/ELF the only place that seems to depend on names rather than the 
> type is _bfd_mips_elf_fake_sections().  I can check how such a change 
> would affect it.  As a last resort, given it's already considered a hack, 
> another one could perhaps be added on top of it making these special 
> sections lose their special type if SHT_NOBITS is already set and having 
> no contents is unexpected and makes such a section useless.

Either answer sounds reasonable to me :-)

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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