[GOLD][PATCH] Set ARM ABI information in ELF file header.
Doug Kwan (關振德)
dougkwan@google.com
Tue Oct 27 16:13:00 GMT 2009
Wow. This makes gold bug-compatible with ld :). I can remove that.
Thanks for catching it.
-Doug
2009/10/27 Joseph S. Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>:
> On Mon, 26 Oct 2009, Doug Kwan (關振德) wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This patch adds code to set proper flags in the processor-specific
>> flags in the ELF file header. Previously we always set e_flags to 0
>> on all target. This patch add methods processor_specific_flags and
>> set_processor_specific_flags in Target so that Output_file_header can
>> get the flags. For targets that merge processor-specific flags from
>> input objects, we also track whether the flags have been set at least
>> once. Currently only the ARM target sets the flags correctly.
>
> It looks like this patch is replicating the GNU ld bug whereby
> EF_ARM_HASENTRY is set on EABI objects. There is no such flag in AAELF
> and so it is a bug to set it on such objects.
>
> --
> Joseph S. Myers
> joseph@codesourcery.com
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