[PATCH v2] ia64: don't fail when converting binary into ELF

[Alan Modra]

On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 10:15:05AM +0000, Sergei Trofimovich wrote:
> From: Sergei Trofimovich <siarheit@google.com>
> 
> In ld/PR25316 ia64 is a rare target that fails the following test:
>   $ echo hi > hello.123
>   $ ia64-unknown-linux-gnu-ld -r -b binary hello.123 -o hello.o
>   ia64-unknown-linux-gnu-ld: failed to merge target specific data of file hello.123
> 
> There is no need to support binary merging explicitly (as other targets).
> 
> bfd/ChangeLog
> 2019-12-26  Sergei Trofimovich <siarheit@google.com>
> 
>         * elfnn-ia64.c (elfNN_ia64_merge_private_bfd_data): don't fail
>         on binary inputs ld/PR25316.
>         (is_ia64_elf): new helper to filter on ia64 objects.

OK.

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM