PATCH: PR gas/10531: Strange assembler warning message on section group

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 09:23:25AM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Alan Modra<amodra@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 04:07:21PM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> >> We can't use bfd_get_section_by_name, subseg_new and subseg_get directly
> >> in dwarf2dbg.c since they don't know ELF section groups. Â This patch adds
> >> obj_get_section_by_name, obj_subseg_new and obj_subseg_get. Â Tested on
> >> Linux/ia32, Linux/ia64 and Linux/Intel64. Â OK to install?
> >
> > Have you tested this with a multi-obj assembler? Â I suspect that
> > something like x86-as --em=i386coff --gdwarf-2 will attempt to
> > access elf-only data structures. Â (That's a slightly ridiculous
> > set of command line options for x86, but we shouldn't have gas
> > segfault.) Â I think the proper patch needs some new fields in
> > struct format_ops and defines in obj-multi.h.
> >
> 
> strcmp can't be used to check if 2 ELF sections have the same name.
> I added bfd_section_name_eq.  OK to install?

This is a weird definition of "the same name".  They have the same
name; they're just not the same section.  What predicate do you really
need here?

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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