[committed, PATCH] Properly convert objects between different ELF classes

[H.J. Lu]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 5:56 AM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 5:18 AM, Andrew Stubbs <ams@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>> On 25/09/15 00:44, Alan Modra wrote:
>>>
>>> OK.  The testsuite addition is OK too after building and testing a
>>> good selection of targets, and xfailing the inevitable breakage.  I
>>> use these:
>>
>>
>> After double-checking, I've discovered that I've misunderstood the code, and
>> the input section's size is not updated by the conversion process (the
>> conversion appears to affect local data only), so the patch would be broken
>> for compressed data.
>>
>> This patch should solve my problem without creating a new one.
>>
>> As for the testcase, after tweaking the pad amount, it only fails on 6 of
>> the targets Alan listed, for which I've added xfails. I presume they're
>> doing some conversion on the input section size such that the data size
>> *should* be the output size (valgrind shows no issues).
>>
>> OK?
>
> I need to take a closer look at what I did before.  In the meantime,
> a couple comments:
>
> 1.
>
> +# Section copies should copy more data than there is in the input
>                            ^^^^^^^^^ What do you mean by "should"?
> +# (i.e. read past end of buffer)
> +# We can't test this directly without valgrind, but --reverse-bytes
> +# ought to use the same value.
>
> 2,  You added a new testcase.  But you didn't check if the output
> from objcopy is correct.
>

Also you should add PR # in ChangeLog entries.


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H.J.