aout target fails

[Nicholas Clifton]

Hi Alan,

> Nick, your git commit 37e3922e is responsible for
> pdp11-dec-aout  +FAIL: align1
> and a bunch of other pdp11 testsuite failures.

I cannot reproduce this failure. :-(

I could see a problem with the align2 test however.  Please could you 
try out the patch below and let me know if it fixes the problems you are 
seeing ?  Also can you give me the full list of regressions so that I 
can check the other cases too ?

Cheers
   Nick


diff --git a/bfd/pdp11.c b/bfd/pdp11.c
index 0c2bb13..aefc5ee 100644
--- a/bfd/pdp11.c
+++ b/bfd/pdp11.c
@@ -1143,7 +1143,7 @@ NAME (aout, set_section_contents) (bfd *abfd,
  				   bfd_size_type count)
  {
    file_ptr text_end;
-  bfd_size_type text_size;
+  bfd_size_type text_size = 0;

    if (! abfd->output_has_begun)
      {
@@ -1172,6 +1172,23 @@ NAME (aout, set_section_contents) (bfd *abfd,
        if (bfd_seek (abfd, section->filepos + offset, SEEK_SET) != 0
  	  || bfd_bwrite (location, count, abfd) != count)
  	return FALSE;
+
+      /* Write zero-padding at the end of the text section.  */
+      if (section == obj_textsec (abfd) && count < text_size)
+	{
+	  static char zero_buf [16];
+
+	  text_size -= count;
+	  while (text_size > 16)
+	    {
+	      if (bfd_bwrite (zero_buf, 16, abfd) != 16)
+		return FALSE;
+	      text_size -= 16;
+	    }
+	  if (text_size > 0
+	      && bfd_bwrite (zero_buf, text_size, abfd) != text_size)
+	    return FALSE;
+	}
      }

    return TRUE;