Pass the elf object of the archive files to a linker plugin's claim file handler
Ian Lance Taylor
iant@google.com
Sat Mar 30 00:55:00 GMT 2013
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Sriraman Tallam <tmsriram@google.com> wrote:
>
> Currently, the elf object of archive files is not passed to a
> linker plugin's claim file handler. This means APIs like
> get_section_count will not work on archive files. The following patch
> fixes this by creating an elf object for archive files before the
> plugin's claim file handler is invoked. If the plugin claims the file
> then the elf object is deleted. This is similar to how regular
> objects are handled in readsyms.cc.
This is OK with a ChangeLog entry.
Thanks.
Ian
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