[PATCH] Fix section symbols in objcopy when removing sections with relocations from Elf objects

Julian Brown julian@codesourcery.com
Thu May 25 23:10:00 GMT 2006


Hi,

Alan Modra wrote:
>	* elf.c (sym_is_global): Return a bfd_boolean.
> 	(ignore_section_sym): New function.
> 	(elf_map_symbols): Use ignore_section_sym to discard some syms.
> 	(_bfd_elf_symbol_from_bfd_symbol): Ensure section belongs to
> 	bfd before using elf_section_syms.

Thanks very much for looking into this! It's far preferable that the fix 
is in Elf-specific code rather than the generic code, I agree. FYI, this 
patch fixes the original problem just fine, and I've committed it on our 
binutils-csl-2_17-branch.

Cheers,

Julian



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